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The Mending Wall Robert Frost Analysis

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Robert Frost distinguishes himself as an American author through the setting and characters in his poems, along with his major themes. Between his setting and characters, he creates a world within his poetry that explores American values and hardships. Frost’s early poems were written in the early 1900s and shared a focus on the parallel between nature and life. After the rise of the Industrial Revolution, Frost shifts the focus back to the rustic farmland of a fading American lifestyle. “The Mending Wall” was written by Robert Frost in 1913. In this poem, Frost creates a rural, rustic type of lifestyle reminiscent that in New England, which is where many of his poems are set. He pushes the reader toward a life of living off the land, where hunting and farming are commonplace and a means of living. The characters in “The Mending Wall” are products of this way of life. The neighbor is portrayed as simple and stuck in his ways. He’s compared to the wood itself and an outdated way of thinking. The speaker refers to him as savage-like for not entertaining the idea that they don’t even have a reason for a wall. However, the speaker does nothing to get rid of the wall and doesn’t even try to convince the neighbor of his perceived folly. The speaker, despite his questioning of the wall, still goes by to mend it and even sets the date for repairs to begin. As is common with most of his poems, Frost starts this poem with an easy, lilting heir but it quickly becomes more

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