Compare the theme of the poem 'Walls and Fences with that of 'Mending Wall' and prepare a critical appreciation
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In Robert Frost's poem The Mending Wall, the wall itself is a symbol of boundaries. The wall separates the narrator's and the neighbor's yard and the wall is a physical barrier also an emotional boundary. Frost not only shows the wall as a symbol, he also shows how two people could view it in vastly opposite ways.
Both the poems have a similar theme that they share with each other.
Both the poems talk about how people have these walls that they put up against others.
These are psychological and emotional walls that are put up to shield oneself from emotional pain and suffering.
These walls that are created are just malice and they have nothing good to offer neither to the person ion front nor to the person who has erected these walls.
If only the person who has erected these walls would choose to look above and beyond them, they would come to know that life is better without these walls in the way.