SCERT Class 12 English Unit 2 poem -Mending wall Summary and appreciation of mending wall

Mending Wall is a poem by famous poet Robert Frost.He questions preservation of some existing traditions. He describes a forces that corrode the wall between his property and his neighbor's each winter.

poet  wrote the poem in blank verse, a form of poetry with unrhymed lines in iambic pentamenter, a metric scheme with five pairs of syllables per line, each pair containing an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

This poem gives the readers an enlightment to the readers.The poem considers the contradictions in life and humanity.It also examines the role of boundaries in human society, as the wall both separates and at the same time join the neighbours.

The analysis of literary devices used in this poem has been given below.

• Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line such as /e/ sound in “To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seeen them made or heard them made"
• Imagery is used to make the readers perceive things with their five senses. Frost has used visual imagery in this poem such as, “And some are loaves and some so nearly balls”, “He is all pine and I am apple orchard” and “Not of woods only and the shade of trees.”
• Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line such as /n/ and /t/ sounds “And set the wall between us once again”.
• Symbolism is using symbols to signify ideas and qualities, giving them symbolic meanings different from their literal meanings. Similarly, “fence” symbolizes ‘gap’ that one should maintain to establish long-lasting relationships and to maintain privacy. “Nature” symbolizes the reunion of the two as the speaker meets his neighbor every year in spring to fix the fence.
• Metaphor is a figure of speech in which an implied comparsion is made between objects different in nature. There is only one metaphor  in the poem. It is used in seventeenth line where it is stated as, “And some are loaves and some so nearly balls.” He compares the stone blocks to loaves and balls.

This stimulating and interesting poem talks about relationships  as well as creation and destruction by the humanity. This poem makes the readers think of their life.The wall represents the ups and downs in life.The poem has many ironical words too.This interesting poem talking about the wall ironically represents the life of humans.

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