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    The document provides context and summaries for Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall". It explains that the poem was published in 1914 in Frost's collection North of Boston. While many poets at the time were experimenting with innovative styles, Frost maintained traditional conventions like formal meter. "Mending Wall" is written in blank verse, with unrhymed iambic pentameter lines. The poem describes the speaker's yearly ritual of mending a stone wall between his property and his neighbor's, though neither sees a real need for the wall. The neighbor insists on the proverb "Good fences make good neighbors" without explaining his reasons.

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    The document provides context and summaries for Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall". It explains that the poem was published in 1914 in Frost's collection North of Boston. While many poets at the time were experimenting with innovative styles, Frost maintained traditional conventions like formal meter. "Mending Wall" is written in blank verse, with unrhymed iambic pentameter lines. The poem describes the speaker's yearly ritual of mending a stone wall between his property and his neighbor's, though neither sees a real need for the wall. The neighbor insists on the proverb "Good fences make good neighbors" without explaining his reasons.

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    The document provides context and summaries for Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall". It explains that the poem was published in 1914 in Frost's collection North of Boston. While many poets at the time were experimenting with innovative styles, Frost maintained traditional conventions like formal meter. "Mending Wall" is written in blank verse, with unrhymed iambic pentameter lines. The poem describes the speaker's yearly ritual of mending a stone wall between his property and his neighbor's, though neither sees a real need for the wall. The neighbor insists on the proverb "Good fences make good neighbors" without explaining his reasons.

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    Robert Frost

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    The document provides context and summaries for Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall". It explains that the poem was published in 1914 in Frost's collection North of Boston. While many poets at the time were experimenting with innovative styles, Frost maintained traditional conventions like formal meter. "Mending Wall" is written in blank verse, with unrhymed iambic pentameter lines. The poem describes the speaker's yearly ritual of mending a stone wall between his property and his neighbor's, though neither sees a real need for the wall. The neighbor insists on the proverb "Good fences make good neighbors" without explaining his reasons.

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    Robert Frost

    'Mending Wall' was written and published by Robert Frost in 1914 in an influential collection of
    poems titledNorth of Boston. Throughout much of his career, a time when many Americans felt
    alienated by increasingly innovative poetry, Frost was an unusually popular poet. This is due in part
    to the fact that, while other writers tended to abandon the qualities of poetry of the previous century,
    Frost's work maintained many of poetry's more traditional conventions. Frost famously insisted, for
    example, that poetry should be written with formal meter, while many contemporary writers had
    already abandoned this convention. This doesn't mean, however, that Frost's poetry was
    straightforward or traditional in content or perspective, as 'Mending Wall' illustrates.

    Mending Wall
    'Mending Wall' is loosely written in blank verse, meaning unrhymed lines consisting of five iambs in
    each line.Iambs are metrical feet that have two syllables, one unstressed syllable followed by one
    stressed syllable, as in 'belong,' or 'along,' or 'away.' As we'll see, in addition to creating an overall
    sound and feeling to the poem, the blank verse form also contributes to the poem's meaning.
    'Mending Wall' opens with a speaker explaining that his property is separated from his neighbor's by
    a stone wall that is constantly being dismantled by 'something that doesn't love a wall.' Just what this
    something is that disrupts the wall remains somewhat vague, but the speaker illustrates that it cannot
    be animals or hunters. The task of mending the wall is difficult, and because nothing in their
    respective properties poses a threat to the others, the speaker tries to convince his neighbor that
    there is no need to continue to fix the wall.
    The neighbor, however, is unconvinced by the speaker's reasoning and in response, simply utters his
    father's saying that 'good fences make good neighbors.' The speaker again presses his neighbor,
    pointing out that rational people should know exactly what they are keeping in and keeping out when
    they build a wall, yet again the neighbor resists the speaker's reasoning. The poem ultimately ends
    symbolically with the neighbor's repetition of the adage that 'good fences make good neighbors.'

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