Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California. The Frost family moved to Massachusetts when he was 11 yrs old after his father died of tuberculosis. He began to write poetry. Robert Frost focuses his poetry on his experiences of life. They include irony and imagery themes in which he gives contradictions of life and human nature. He operates on so many levels that his poems may cause the reader to misunderstand them. Although Frost uses ordinary subjects, he tends to use a wide variety of emotions, allowing his poems to shift from humor to tragedy. “The dark qualities of a Frost poem, however, do not necessarily determine that the poem without humor….. Frosts’ poems are tricky out of a mischievous sense of delight”. (Bloom, p.10).
The “Mending wall”(1106-07) was published in Frost’s North of Boston along with other poems
Frost uses paradox in his poems which give contraindications on life and human nature which can be hard for some readers to understand the message that his is trying to convey. His poems sometimes points out a particular meaning if the reader can understand and interpret it correctly. Frost wrote abut his own experiences in life which makes his poems interesting, sometimes ending up in dramatic situations. He lost many family members to premature death. His parents died of a disease when he was younger and he lost four of his children. He focuses more on dramatic situation because his family life was filled with tragedy. He adds humor and tragic tones in his poems which he concentrates on ordinary subject matters of life.
. This poem does not rhyme. The setting is in England around the early 1900’s, a story about a wall made of stone. Both of the men worked togeth
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