Robert Frost Poems

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The writer of this paper establishes some points of similarity and difference in the two works, by Robert Frost. It shows how both "Mowing" and "Mending Wall" celebrate the joy of honest labor, but with two very different results. In "Mowing," the man is satisfied by his labor, but in "Mending Wall," the man is not.

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"The narrator in "Mending Wall" never names himself, but he does not need to. It is clear who he is as the lines of the poem develop themselves. He is a gentle man, who does not really need the fence to show what land is his, and what land belongs to his neighbors. "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out,/ And to whom I was like to give offense" (Frost). Frost shows he is kind and gentle by the way he speaks of the hunters, as if he is not one of them, and that they please their dogs at the expense of the poor rabbits they are chasing (Frost). He makes it clear from the very beginning of the poem that he does not enjoy having the wall, and does not see a need for it, as he thinks that nature does not like the wall either, that is why she sends "ground swells" in the frozen ground, to break the wall in places, and pull it apart (Frost)."

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