Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offence.Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That wants it down."Now read “The Pasture,” also by Robert Frost. I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):I shan’t be gone long.—You come too.I’m going out to fetch the little calfThat’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,It totters when she licks it with her tongue.I shan’t be gone long.—You come too. Which best accounts for the different views of spring expressed in the poems?
Which practice was typical of Robert Frost?
Why does the neighbor say that “good fences make good neighbours” in "Mending Wall"?
Read the excerpt from "Mending 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 neighbours."Based on the excerpt, what does the speaker most likely think about the wall?
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall." I see him thereBringing a stone grasped firmly by the topIn each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees.He will not go behind his father's saying,And he likes having thought of it so wellHe says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."Based on the excerpt, what does the speaker think of his neighbor?
Which practice was common among modernist poets?
Who is the speaker of the "Mending Wall"?
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."Something there is that doesn't 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.The work of hunters is another thing:I have come after them 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. Whom does the speaker blame for the gaps in the wall?
Which practice did Robert Frost have in common with his modernist peers?
Read the poem “The Man Against the Sky” by Edwin Arlington Robinson.Between me and the sunset, like a domeAgainst the glory of a world on fire,Now burned a sudden hill,Bleak, round, and high, by flame-lit height made higher,With nothing on it for the flame to killSave one who moved and was alone up thereTo loom before the chaos and the glareAs if he were the last god going homeUnto his last desire.Dark, marvelous, and inscrutable he moved onTill down the fiery distance he was gone,—Like one of those eternal, remote thingsThat range across a man's imaginingsWhen a sure music fills him and he knowsWhat he may say thereafter to few men,—The touch of ages having wroughtAn echo and a glimpse of what he thoughtA phantom or a legend until then;For whether lighted over ways that save,Or lured from all repose,If he go on too far to find a grave,Mostly alone he goes.What is the main similarity between “The Man Against the Sky” and Frost’s poem "Mending Wall"?
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