Category: Mending Wall

Robert Frost interprets bad habits such as greed and stubbornness through his comparisons. This is clearly shown in his two poems The Cow in apple time which is about a cow, binging on apples and mending wall which is about the experience of two neighbors mending a seemingly useless wall. In both of these poems,…

Robert Frost is known as an American Poet and is a writer who can be understood in a variety of lenses. As readers, we are able to focus on Frosts choice of words, how his lines are delivered, his tone, the symbolism, and the imagery. By understanding the symbolism of the poem we are able…

Poems by William Blake Primarily, Blake intends to expose the cruelty of life and society as well as the consequences of the Christians’ beliefs regarding suffering and hardship. The Chimney Sweeper begins by informing readers that the speaker was quite young when a tragic event occurred by stating,  When my mother died I was…