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Reading List
Klein, A. (2008). The counterlove of robert frost.

Sanders, D. (2003). Frost's north of boston, its language, its people, and its poet.

O'Donnell, W.,G. (1998). Talking about poems with robert frost.

Frost, Robert. "Mending Wall".

Trachtenberg, Zev. 1997. "Good Neighbors make Good Fences: Frost's "Mending Wall".

A numbered list of all your readings go here. Use the following format:
 * 1) Author’s name. (Date). Short title.

Original
"Mending Wall" is a poem written in blank verse, published in 1914, by Robert Frost (1874–1963). There are five stressed syllables per line, with varying feet and occasional lines of iamb. The poem appeared as the first selection in Frost's second collection of poetry, North of Boston.

Revised
The Mending Wall Robert Frost was a famous American poet that lived from 1874 to 1963. His famous poem "Mending Wall" is written in blank verse, contains five stressed syllables per line, and it is written with varying feet and occasional lines of iamb. The poem was published as the first selection in Robert Frost's second collection of poetry, titled North of Boston.

Original Contribution
In his poem, the Mending Wall, Robert Frost narrates the yearly occasion in which he and his neighbor come to a wall between their houses to repair the damage done by various factors. The poem features two primary characters-- the narrator who is presumably Frost himself and his neighbor. As the poem begins the "narrator, at first glance, seems to take a somewhat skeptical attitude toward property" making the narrator seem like an individual who believes that communal divisions have a negative effect on society. The author utilizes the character to convey the personal feeling of disappointment in regard to properties making individuals further apart. The only other character, the neighbor, embraces the wall between the two characters' properties, his only words throughout the poem are "good fences make good neighbors" clearly stating his opinion in regard and contrary to the narrator's. An important factor to note in regard to the opinion of the narrator about property is that he is not necessarily against property, he still shows up every spring to fix the wall and thus conveys the message that property is not necessarily bad. The actual point that Frost is trying to make through the narrator is that although personal space is important, too much division causes a negative impact on society. The poem employs Frost's romanticist elements as evident through his want of a community that is more tightly nit.