Thursday, April 21, 2016

Mending Wall

Mending Wall
Robert Frost

Theme: A battle between traditions and rebellion" "Discovering what the wall mean't.

Text Evidence: "In each hand, like an old-stoned savage armed."

Summary: The Frost and his neighbor each year walk the wall to repair it. The Frost questions the walls purpose. The neighbor is shutting himself in and every one else out.

Characters: The author and his neighbor.

Conflict: Person v.s. fate. Letting some of those walls down.

Figurative Language: Similes "In each hand, like an old-stoned savage armed."

Point of View: First Person

Text Evidence: "If I could put a notion in his head."

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