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    KEREN ARRIETA VILLEGAS
    The document is a student's analytical essay about the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. The essay summarizes that the poem explores the importance of borders and questions whether barriers are needed due to human nature. It analyzes the use of metaphor, imagery, consonance, symbolism and repetition in the poem. Specifically, it examines the metaphor of stones being compared to loaves and balls, and discusses the symbolism of the fence representing a gap between people. The essay concludes by highlighting the overall doubt and questioning around whether limits and barriers are necessary for respect and good relations.

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    The document is a student's analytical essay about the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. The essay summarizes that the poem explores the importance of borders and questions whether barriers are needed due to human nature. It analyzes the use of metaphor, imagery, consonance, symbolism and repetition in the poem. Specifically, it examines the metaphor of stones being compared to loaves and balls, and discusses the symbolism of the fence representing a gap between people. The essay concludes by highlighting the overall doubt and questioning around whether limits and barriers are necessary for respect and good relations.

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    The document is a student's analytical essay about the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. The essay summarizes that the poem explores the importance of borders and questions whether barriers are needed due to human nature. It analyzes the use of metaphor, imagery, consonance, symbolism and repetition in the poem. Specifically, it examines the metaphor of stones being compared to loaves and balls, and discusses the symbolism of the fence representing a gap between people. The essay concludes by highlighting the overall doubt and questioning around whether limits and barriers are necessary for respect and good relations.

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    KEREN ARRIETA VILLEGAS
    The document is a student's analytical essay about the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. The essay summarizes that the poem explores the importance of borders and questions whether barriers are needed due to human nature. It analyzes the use of metaphor, imagery, consonance, symbolism and repetition in the poem. Specifically, it examines the metaphor of stones being compared to loaves and balls, and discusses the symbolism of the fence representing a gap between people. The essay concludes by highlighting the overall doubt and questioning around whether limits and barriers are necessary for respect and good relations.

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    FUNDACIÓN EDUCATIVA DE MONTELÍBANO

    ELEVENTH GRADE
    The analytical essay
    Name: Keren Arrieta
    Teacher: Susana Sanchez
    Purpose: I will be able to write an analysis essay.
    Date: May 29th, 2020 Grade: 11ºC

    “Mending Wall” Analytical Essay

    “Mending Wall” is a poem written by Robert Frost that leads us to think about the
    importance of borders that exist everywhere, from home to countries and at the
    same time makes us wonder if we are so bad by nature that we should prevent
    others from doing what they want with our belongings. The poem uses lots of
    figurate language to recreate speaker’s thoughts and some scenes that lives with
    his neighbor.

    The poem has a single stanza but it is long, it has an iambic parameter and, in
    general, it is very rich in rhetorical figures, it is full of metaphors, imagery,
    consonance, symbolism and repetition.
    The single metaphor we see is:

    “And some are loaves and some so nearly balls.”

    In here we can see how the author compares the stone blocks with loaves and
    balls.

    “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” are the imageries
    presented in the poem so that each reader is made in the image of what he tries
    to say.

    “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 offence.”

    “Good fences make good neighbors.”

    This is the point that makes me reflect, we see the different points of view of the
    neighbors, on the one hand, the speaker affirms that he does not understand the
    need for the walls, that these should only be put on specific occasions, either to
    defend or protect themselves from something bad that is going to happen, while
    his neighbor says that the limits this wall sets make them better neighbors. So at
    this point I try to clarify and decide whether or not these limits are necessary, but
    in the end I think this is what the author wants to question, the need or
    uselessness of these.
    The consonance shows the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line, in
    this case are /n/ and /t/ sounds “And set the wall between us once again”.

    Repetition is shown in an important phrase “Good fences make good neighbors”


    which is one of the discussion points and shows the neighbor's point of view.

    Next, the symbolism present on this poem is one of the things that caught my
    attention the most and makes me doubt about borders and is when the speaker
    makes that “fence” symbolizes “gap”, so the speaker defends his point, wanting
    to show that the walls generate distance and gaps between people, contrary to
    what his neighbor thinks that what he does is unite them.

    I end by highlighting the doubt that throughout the text Frost tries to leave us, and
    is that he shows two perspectives about the walls that can mean limits and it is in
    general, if everything should have those gaps to make us respect and have good
    relations with all Or you should simply discard them and allow us to share the
    spaces with those around us. In my view, I believe that limits and those barriers
    or gaps are imposed because humanity is sadly very corrupted, so many people
    would abuse the trust that comes from removing the limits.

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