‘Mending Wall’ by Robert Frost Essay

In the poem Mending W altogether by Robert Frost, the poet considers the value or otherwise, of boundaries. In contemplating whether good fences make good neighbors, he is including all barriers and boundaries in that including walls. He is concerned that the look may be becoming so popular and spouted so often that it is fast becoming trite. He adores whether properties are always of sufficient threat to each other as to always demand some(a) kind of barrier. Apples are no threat to cattle for example, or corn to forestry trees. However, others may feel opposite it depends on whats on the property and what the neighbor believes. Some believe that its pointless to wonder what your neighbors like just throw up a wall and be through with(predicate) with it that way everyones happy.There are no incursions and therefore no disputes. I sigh the leave out of many a thing I sought / And with old woes new wail my dear snips waste I regret that I did not achieve many things I see k to get, and with old regrets renewed I now grieve over having wasted my precious time Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow / For precious friends hid in deaths dateless night, Then I can cry, being unaccustomed to crying, over dear friends who have died, And outcry afresh loves long since cancelld woe / And moan the expense of many a vanishd sight And weep again over former loves that I put stern me long ago, and cry over the pain of many faded memories Then can I grieve at grievances foregone / And heavily from woe to woe tell oer Then I can grieve over past griefs and recount each badness with a heavy heart, The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan / Which I new pay as if not paid before. The sad medical history of things I have grieved over already, which I now grieve over anew as though I never did before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend / only losses are restored and sorrows end. But as before long as I think of you, my dear friend, all those wounds are h ealed, and my sorrows come to an end. Why is he saying it?Sonnet 30 is at the center of a sequence of sonnets dealing with the narrators growing attachment to the fair entitle and the narrators paralyzing inability to function without him. The sonnet begins with the image of the poet drifting mop up into the remembrance of things past painful memories, we soon learn, that the poet has already lamented but now must lament anew. The fair over master key enters the scene only in the sonnets closing couplet, wherehe is presented as a panacea for the poets ablaze distress. tight mirroring the message of sonnet 29, here Shakespeare cleverly heightens the expression of his overwhelming anxiety by belaboring the theme of emotional dependence. Whereas in sonnet 29 he quits his whining after the second quatrain, in sonnet 30 three full quatrains are devoted to the narrators grief, suggesting that his dependence on the fair lord is increasing. Meanwhile sonnet 30s closing couplet reitera tes lines 9-14 of sonnet 29 in be form, emphasizing that the fair lord is a necessity for the poets emotional well-being the fair lord is the only thing that can bring the poet happiness.This pinnacle of the poets plaintive state is beautifully conveyed through an artful use of repetition and internal rhyme. Beyond the obvious alliteration of sessions of sweet silent thought, mention the -nce assonance of remembrance and grievances, to which may be added since and cancelld the correspondence of sigh, sought, and sight and the rhyme in foregone, fore-bemoaned, before, and restored. It is as though the poet wishes to hammer in his hardship with the repetitive droning of his troubled soul. Beyond its poetics, sonnet 30 also provides some prime examples of the poets recurring tendency to describe his relationship with the fair lord in financial terms.The opening lines of the sonnet remind us of being called to court (cf. court sessions and come a witness). This is followed by a slew of money-related terms, including expense, grievances, account, paid, and losses. The phrase tell oer in line 10 is an accounting expression (cf. the modern bank teller) and conjures up an image of the narrator accommodate a balance sheet of his former woes and likening them to debts that he can never pay off in full. The only cure for his financial hardship is the fair lords patronage by chance something to be taken literally, suggesting that the fair lord is in fact the poets real-world financial benefactor.