what is the irony in mending wall
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This particular Robert Frost poem is pointing out a situational irony that can be found in the act of putting up boundaries between people. The poem itself is about the narrator and his neighbor who both have to work every year to mend the wall along their property line. The wall gets broken for various reasons in the poem, and the narrator is perfectly willing to just let the wall be done for good. He and his neighbor have completely different crops, and those crops won't affect each other regardless of the wall's presence.
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
The neighbor, though, feels that the wall itself creates good relationships between the two men.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
It's ironic that something designed to keep people apart would actually function as a way of keeping things cordial. It doesn't make sense to the narrator, but the neighbor probably feels that the wall is a concrete indicator that shows each person what belongs to whom. There is less chance for any kind of argument between the two men because the wall exists
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This particular Robert Frost poem is pointing out a situational irony that can be found in the act of putting up boundaries between people. The poem itself is about the narrator and his neighbor who both have to work every year to mend the wall along their property line. The wall gets broken for various reasons in the poem, and the narrator is perfectly willing to just let the wall be done for good. He and his neighbor have completely different crops, and those crops won't affect each other regardless of the wall's presence.
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
The neighbor, though, feels that the wall itself creates good relationships between the two men.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
It's ironic that something designed to keep people apart would actually function as a way of keeping things cordial. It doesn't make sense to the narrator, but the neighbor probably feels that the wall is a concrete indicator that shows each person what belongs to whom. There is less chance for any kind of argument between the two men because the wall exists
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Perhaps the greatest irony in the poem "Mending Wall" is that the speaker continues to help rebuild the wall even as he realizes he disagrees with its presence. As the poem progresses, the speaker...
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