"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. This poem has many characteristics of the Modern period (1914-1945). For example, the Modern period is all about new ideas and experimentation, and this poem has the idea on new ideas and experimentation. The speaker of the poem (Kandy) is rebuilding the wall between his neighbor (Lisa) and him/her (Kandy), but then he/she (Kandy) starts questioning the wall. The speaker (Kandy) tries to convience his neighbor (Lisa) to have no wall and just be neighbors because he says that either way "He (Lisa) is all pine and I (Kandy) am apple orchard./ My apple trees will never get across/ And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him" (24-26). The neighbor (Lisa) responds by saying that "Good fences make good neighbors" (27). The neighbor (Lisa), like most of the people is afraid of new ideas, changes, and the different, unlike the neighbor (Lisa), the speaker (Kandy) wants to try something new. This poem has all the characteristics of the Modern period.
I agree with you. It does have the characteristics. And it is reality if you really think about it. Some people always Truro make a change while others are all scared and don't want to change anything.
ReplyDeleteWow you took up all the post to describe the poem but overall I also think that this poem is based on the qualities that the Modern Times. This poem also talks a lot about the reality that many humans experience in their life time so yea this is a good poem.
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