21-04

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⋮⋮ Program

• Translating “Wall Mending”
• Analysing “Wall Mending”
• Fællessamling

≣ Tasks

Warm-up

Where would you like to build or mend a wall right now? What would you like to wall in? What would you like to wall out? Why? Has it got to do with safety, personal space, closeness, distance, proximity, privacy, territory?

Themes

• Pick the one theme you think best describes what this poem wants to say something about. Also pick the one you think least describes it.
  • Human reactions to nature’s processes
  • The loneliness of the individual in the universe
  • Distances and tensions between people
  • Tradition as opposed to modern life
  • Mending a wall separates and joins people
  • The circle of life in nature
  • Language joins and separates people
  • Supernatural elements in nature
• Finish this sentence with your chosen theme(s): “Robert Frost’s Wall Mending describes [theme] by…”

Themes

• Link some of these literary devices to your interpretation of the poem’s theme. What’s the effect?
  • Blank verse. The poem is written in iambic pentameter. Blank verse is a form used in many of Shakespeare’s plays.
  • Apostrophes are used l. 19, 30 and 36.
  • Personification ll. 25-26.
  • An epigram is used on ll. 27 and 45.
  • Simile is used ll. 40-41.
  • Assonance is used particularly ll. 9-10 (the gaps, etc.).
  • Enjambement.
  • Repetition of phrases.
• Use verbs like: create, echo, give the impression, highlight, illustrate, make evident, mirror, portray, reflect, reinforce, stress, suggest, support.