"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost Flashcards
1
Q
title
A
metaphor for the emotional walls people build up around themselves
2
Q
paraphrase
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man who builds a wall and wonders why he needs to, because it seems like it serves no purpose.
3
Q
connotation
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- “love a wall”
- prefer a wall, and nature is trying to remind us that we don’t really need these walls all the time, even though we have always thought we did
- “stone on stone”
- stones are heavy and suggest savagery
- “spring is the mischief in me”
- we naturally question things
4
Q
tone
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- human contanct can seem like a dangerous thing, and that is why we put up both physical and emotional walls
5
Q
shift
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- “there where it is we do not ned the wall”
- “he is all pine and i am apple orchard”
- “my apple trees will never get across”
- “and eat the cones under his pines, i say”
- “he only says, ‘good fences make good neighbors”
6
Q
title
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- mending
- - physically or emotionally? it might be both
7
Q
symbolic of nature
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even natural forces
8
Q
good fences make good neighbors
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privacy is key
9
Q
not an enemy of the wall
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neighbor
10
Q
what does the wall do
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bring speaker and neighbor together
11
Q
speaker’s frustration
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wall isn’t really needed
12
Q
something there is that…
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nature ruins the wall
13
Q
spring is the mischief in me…
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in spring, the speaker…
14
Q
relationship between speaker and neighbor
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distant
15
Q
old-stone savage armed
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caveman
