Mending Wall Argument

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Rough Draft for The Mending wall argument In Robert Frost’s poem, “The Mending Wall”, Robert tells a story of two neighbors and that separate them. The speaker of the poem and the neighbor both tend to the wall every spring for repairs. The speaker does not see eye to eye with the neighbor and questions why they even do it. There is no purpose for the wall so why do both of them keep coming out each spring for repairs? The speaker sees no purpose why they keep up the wall at all. There is nothing in the yard so what does the mean to protect or keep out? In the poem “Mending Wall”, by Robert Frost, the speaker states “He is all pine and I am apple orchard. /My apple trees will never get across /And eat the cones under his pines.” It is not …show more content…

Even before they built the wall he questioned why it was even going up. The neighbor clung to the old saying in the end. There was to cattle to hold up in the yard, just trees. Yet the neighbor still did not give the speaker a reason but only repeated the adage. Again and again the neighbors meet up each year to tend to the wall that separates them. The neighbor still keeps to his word and, He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”(45). The speaker starts to envision his neighbor with a dark-age mentality because he just repeats the adage. They still kept to the wall every spring for repairs and still the neighbor gave no reason why. There was no harm in keeping the wall, but there was also no reason to, so why do they still keep to it?
Robert Frost who wrote “Mending Wall” tells of two neighbors who tend a wall each spring for no reason but just to repair it. There is nothing to keep in or out of the yards yet both of them still work on it. The speaker of the poem does question why they do it, but the neighbor only repeats the saying, “Good fences make good neighbors.”(27,45) but the speaker does not care for those old sayings. There is no reason for them to keep up the wall but they do, each spring, every

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