Mending Wall by Robert Frost

                           Mending Wall by Robert Frost

       

                                     

       

       The present philosophical poem by Frost in which he comments on the secretive attitude of modern man. Every human being in present time has become castle, he/she doesn’t want to come out that secretive attitude and he would not allow other person to know about it. This secretive attitude of modern man is brought into the light in the present poem.

    

    The subject matter of the poem is to repair the wall between the house of the poet and his neighbor’s house. Poet is not in favor of having  wall between his and neighbor’s house but his neighbor insisted on having a wall. Poet found some unseen forces which don’t like that wall, may be that is the reason why there is the gaps and cracks in it. The implied meaning is that God doesn’t want a man should remain aloof from other man. But neighbor is of different opinion that,

    

                     “Good fences make good neighbors”

        Then, Poet compares himself with an orchard of an apple and his neighbor to the forest of pine trees. It suggests that the nature of the poet id different from his neighbor. Neighbor arranges stones on the wall with good balance so that can’t fall down but poet doesn’t like because he doesn’t want any wall.

     Thus, the present poem is sarcastic remark on the human relations in modern man times. The attitude of modern man has became so strange and secretive that he doesn’t want to share any matter with others. he would like to keep wall around him in such a way that there may not any interaction between him and others.