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1、Mending WallRobert FrostSomething there is that doesnt love a wall,That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.somethingnature It is nature that damage the wall.The work of hunters is another thing:I have come after th
2、em and made repairWhere they have left not one stone on a stone,But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,No one has seen them made or heard them made,But at spring mending-time we find them there.“I” symbolizes the younger generation who calls for a co
3、mplete social change.I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;And on a day we meet to walk the lineAnd set the wall between us once again.We keep the wall between us as we go.“neighbor” symbolizes the old generation who tries to keep the tradition and hates reform and change.to measureTo each the boul
4、ders that have fallen to each.And some are loaves and some so nearly ballsWe have to use a spell to make them balance:Stay where you are until our backs are turned!We wear our fingers rough with handling them.Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,One on a side. It comes to little more:There where it
5、 is we do not need the wall:He is all pine and I am apple orchard.My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”The apple trees are personified, as the speaker claims that they will never wander across and eat the pi
6、ne cones on his neighbors property.But the neighbor insists on his thought.Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:“Why do they make good neighbors? Isnt itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I built a wall Id ask to knowWhat I was walling in
7、 or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offense.make his neighbor understandimply his neighbors stubborn and the speaker couldnt change his mind.rhetoric To claim that we dont need the wall.Something there is that doesnt love a wall,That wants it down.” I could say “Elves”to him,But its not e
8、lves exactly, and Id ratherHe said it for himself. I see him thereBringing a stone grasped firmly by the topIn each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.Imply his neighbor is a old fashioned, conservative man.He moves in darkness as it seems to me,Not of woods only and the shade of trees.He will not
9、 go behind his fathers saying,And he likes having thought of it so wellHe says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”The speaker fails to convince his neighbor. The wall is a sign of civilization which can keep the savage out. But the wall may be a barrier between the people. It makes the people
10、miss the chance to communicate with each other. In this aspect, the wall is unnecessary. Something there is that doesnt love a wall, which will break the wall. Because this wall is against peoples satisfaction, even again the nature. So the power tendency will destroy it sooner or later.Contradictio
11、nThe poet shows great concern for nature, human society and spirit, which is a synecdoche of the relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and self; which is futher an alarm for human beings in ecological dilemma. Frost is mending a wall, whats more, he is mending the gaps in modern mans psyche.Something there is that doesnt love a wall. Good fences make good neighbors. Thanks for your attention!
