Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," written in a third person point-of-view, is at the surface merely a description of two neighbors who repair a wall that separates their property. The poem opens with the line, "something there is that doesn't love a wall" (line 1). The narrator, though curious, states that Mother Nature is that "something" who makes the "frozen-ground-swell" and "spills upper boulders." As the poem continues, it is evident that the wall, not only having a physical implication of separation, also holds an emotional significance. The wall is in fact a manifestation of the emotional...

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Robert Frost is one of America's best-known poets and may be the most misunderstood. Because his poems are often set in rural, early 20th Century New England settings, people think of him as a simple, and with a benevolent outlook on the world. In some of his writing, it is true, but much of his work is actually much darker, and much more complex. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," is that kind of a poem. In it, the speaker appears to consider the possibility that death may be more preferable than life. The speaker may be Robert Frost himself at point in his life. The structure of the poe...

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