Ethos Pathos Logos In Mending Wall

Divided Societies Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 and sadly passed away on January 29, 1963. He was considered one of the most famous poets of his time because of all of the amazing works he published. The type of poetry he wrote about could be described as conversational, realistic, and rural. The one I chose to focus on and analyze is the “Mending Wall” which can be considered a controversial and realistic poem. When he wrote the “Mending Wall '' it was a few months before WWI began, but there was tension all around the world even though the war had not started. People divided amongst themselves because they had different beliefs and views based on what they considered right or wrong. “Mending Wall” was written based on what Robert

He uses many descriptive words to convey the emotions he wants his audience to feel. One of the most recurring emotions is distress. An example of this is “...spills the upper boulders”(Frost, line 3). By using describing words to get the full meaning across, it makes people think about what or who is spilling the upper boulders and why are the upper boulders spilling? There is no direct answer ever given, which causes the feeling of distress to grow even more. Another word that is used is “mending” which gives the feeling of hopefulness that maybe the conflict will get better because to mend something is to fix

Robert Frost uses lots of difficult phrases and words that do not make sense to most readers. I understand some readers like to analyze poems and look even deeper into words and the meaning behind the poems. Some of the audience would do a very in depth analysis to even come up with a connection to logos. However for many people including me, trying to make a connection back to logos providing evidence or a quote would be extremely difficult. That is because there is no surface level logic used, for example there was no statistics used or any proven facts provided. I think Robert could have incorporated logos by using easier or more commonly used words because it would have made connections between two things more possible to accomplish. He could have also added a statistic somewhere in the poem and it would have made the topic of the poem even clearer to the audience and made the message even more powerful, and would have shown a real reason why people should be more open minded. I also think if Robert added a remark or comment about something that happened in history it would make the poem better because there is something there that even someone who does not understand the poem at all, can look up the historical event and get a better jist of what they just