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Analysis "Mending Wall", By Robert Frost

In "Mending Wall", Robert Frost uses a series of contrasts, to express his own conflict between tradition and creation. By describing the annual ritual of two neighbors repairing the wall between them, he contrasts both neighbors through their ideas and actions, intertwining the use of parallelism and metaphors, in order to display his own innermost conflict as a poet; the balance between what is to be said and what is to be left to the reader, the balance between play and understanding.
From the very first line, the speaker is presented as playful and intelligent, and clearly not a ‘native' farmer. He gives an enjoyable and roundabout, almost magical, phrasing to the first line, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall", leaving it deliciously unclear. This "it", who the reader later realizes is frost—as in winter's frost—is what tears down the wall. Yet in the speaker's own refusal to define it, he displays his love for childlike......

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