Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mending walls
- Structure
- First person narrative
- 45 lines , loose rhyme
- Breaks rhyme to maintain feeling of conversation
- occasional internal rhyme
- There are no stanza breaks, obvious end-rhymes,
or rhyming patterns
- Story
- 2 Characters meet to fix the wall yearly
- Frost does not see the need for a wall
as they have no live stalk
- frost wonders does the earth not
want walls as they mysteriously break
during the year
- Theme
- Community
- Frost and his neighbour
meet yearly to mend the
wall
- The meeting ensures the
pair maintain a healthy
relationship
- Nature
- Frost references , rabbits, trees
and live stock throughout the
poem
- Nature seems to destroy the wall
as if the world does not want any
walls
- Isolation
- Although the pair meet
annually frost still walks
along the wall repairing it
during the year
- People
- Frost creates 2 contrasting characters
- The narrator questions
the need for the wall as it
keeps getting destroyed
and the only thing either
side of the wall is trees
- The neighbour belives the wall should be
maintained in order to keep a healthy
relationship even though the is absent most of
the year