Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” is about barriers people live within for no logical reason. Frost shows immediately that there is something wrong when he begins the poem with “something there is that doesn’t love a wall”. The poem tells of two neighbors who seem to be second-generation landowners. They never discuss why, but every spring the two meet to walk along their respective sides of the wall and fix all the holes that have been created over the year. Although it is evident that they like the wall fixed once a year, they don’t seem to mind the holes in the wall when their backs are turned. Leakage from one side to the other is not the entire reason behind the task. The speaker goes as far as to say to the stones themselves, “stay where you are until our backs are turned”. You see, there is no reason for the wall to be there. The land is used differently on either side and neither uses of land would be aff

Society often pretends to care. They build the Hispanic community housing projects. The pigeons are given large wooden cages in the same way. Somebody decided that was sufficient. The speaker blames their traditional poor treatment of Hispanics on the trend to push away problems, ignore them.

Both of these poems reflect societies trend to separate, segregate and ignore problems for no other reason other than that’s the way things have always been. There are many things we do without questioning. We all basically obey the social norms. The style of clothes we wear, where we choose to live are decided by social norms. The “Mending Wall” portrays our tendency to turn a blind eye to what we know is wrong. The way the pigeon coup was built to appease and confine the dirty birds was similar to the neighbors’ insistence to erect a boundary between he and his neighbor. These are far too common traits among all people. Both of these poems deal with those themes.

ected by the other sides usage. Frankly, The wall serves no real purpose.

Our society is very similar. I live in Boston. We learned of many places for us not to go. Why? Nobody’s ever asked. We have been told by our parents and grandparents to stay out of Roxbury, Shirley Ave. area and Mission Hill. And we obey. These are predominantly minority populations. Our Grandparents and parents have passes

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