His other masterful works include “Home Burial”, “Directive”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “The Lovely Shall be Choosers”, “Spring Pools” etc. He was awarded four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry in his lifetime and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature for 31 times. He moved to Britain where he came under the influence of Irish and English writers like Thomas Hardy and W.B. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural village especially settings from his life in rural New England to examine complex, philosophical questions. Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poet of the twentieth century. But when used as an adjective, “mending” implies a distinguished relationship that the speaker and his neighbour share which they are trying to mend.
When used as a verb, it signifies an act involving the speaker and the neighbour where they mend the wall.
The title of the poem Mending Wall is ambiguous as the word ‘mending’ can be used as a verb and an adjective. He simply repeats the age-old adage again and again. But the neighbour won’t pay heed to any reasoning. That is why the mysterious gaps appear and boulders fall for no reason. The speaker also argues that nature does not like such walls between men. But the neighbour wanted it to be there as he believed in the old proverb: ‘Good fences make good neighbours’. The narrator believed that the wall should not exist at all, for he could not find a real reason for putting up the wall. Every year they meet to repair the stone wall after new gaps are found in it. The theme of the poem Mending Wall revolves around the wall dividing the two neighbours’ property. The poem Mending Wall is believed to be built upon Frost’s relationship with his neighbour a French-Canadian named Napoleon Guay in New Hampshire with, of course, a wider understanding of the issues. Through this poem, he has tried to explore the way people isolate themselves physically and emotionally by building barriers like fences to derive a sense of safety. This poem is the first work in Frost’s second book of poetry, North of Boston (1915). Mending Wall is a dramatic-narrative poem by Robert Frost, a popular American poet. Mending Wall by Robert Frost: About the poem
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