what is the theme of the poem mending wall long answer
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Frost first dealt with in his poem "A Tuft of Flowers" in his first collection of poems, A Boy's Will.Unlike the earlier poem, which explores the bond between men, "Mending Wall" deals with the distances and tensions between men. The poem explores the contradictions in life and humanity, including the contradictions within each person, as man "makes boundaries and he breaks boundaries". It also explores the role of boundaries in human society, as mending the wall serves both to separate and to join the two neighbors, another contradiction. Mending Wall" also plays with the theme of seasons as recurring cycles in life, and contrasts those cycles with both physical and language parallelism as the men walk along the wall, each to a side, and their language stays each to a side.Frost further meditates on the role of language as a kind of wall that both joins and separates people.Finally, Frost explores the theme of mischief and humor, as the narrator says halfway through the poem, "Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder/If I could put a notion in his head" . Mending the wall is a game for the narrator, though in contrast, the neighbor seems quite serious about the work. The narrator notes how the neighbor seems to be walking not only in the thick shade of woods and trees, but in actual "darkness", implying ignorance and/or inhospitable sentiments
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There are many ways of looking at this poem, which is what makes it an interesting piece to think about. Its theme is the conflict between tradition and innovation. In the poem, two neighbors mend...