INTRO
Each person has their own comfort zone in a relationship, and we are the ones that choose who we shut out. The poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost beautifully captures the relationship between two neighbors. Although this story may only seem like a poem about two neighbors discussing a wall, it is much deeper than that. “MENDING WALL” IS ABOUT HOW PEOPLE BUILD UP WALLS AROUND THEM TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR LIVES EVEN THOUGH THERE IS APART OF US THAT WANT TO LET THEM IN.
BODY.
At the beginning of this poem Robert Frost explains how there are different elements that keep breaking the wall. The narrator in the first stanza states, “Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.” (Frost lines 1-4).
…show more content…
Frost’s narrator is also trying to prove that there is no need for the wall and that if the wall does come down that everything will be alright. In lines 36 through blinds 40 the narrator leaves a little bit of a hint to the neighbor as to what to problem is; although, the narrator wants the neighbor to come to his own conclusions. Yet the neighbors habits and old ways hold them back. He doesn't want to take down the wall because it's how he's lived his whole life; he doesn't want to venture outside of his comfort zone. “He moves into darkness as it seems to me~ Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father’s saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors’” (Robert Frost lines 41-45) This definitely gives the reader the feeling that the neighbor (who wants to keep the wall up) is hiding something. The mention of “darkness” resembles that of a dark secret that does not want to be known by