The Wall of Friendship

Mending Wall by Robert Frost is a poem that talks about the relationship of two farmer inhabits as they maintained a fence between their respective areas. The persona is narrating how the bulwark that they baffle maintained has been destroyed by time, not to mention the sun and the hunters. He is also calling the attention of the neighbor for their mending time which they do every spring time. The different farmer in the poem believes that the wall serves him and his neighbor good. Good fences make good neighbors according to him suggests that the wall symbolizes nothing else but something that does only serve as a roadblock but also as a uncouth wall for them to celebrate friendship and companionship. The symbolism of the wall as mentioned in the earlier paragraph is that of restraint and common wall. These two moderate factors in every persons relationships with each other, in the poem it is the relationship and friendship of two neighbor farmers. In every relationship that the gr flow unwashed have, a wall is needed to as to make it harmonious.As the other farmer has said, Good fences make good neighbors. It is only through maintaining the wall, repairing it in discipline of ruin, and putting it in the right place that make relationships between people work out smoothly. In the assertion that the wall serves as a barrier in the maintenance of relationships between and among people, the persona has said that Before I built a wall Id ask to know/ What I was walling in or walling out,/ And to whom I was like to give offense. This line suggests that in maintaining friendship or any other relationship with people around you you have to set boundaries and limitations. For instance, if you are neighbors, then you should recognize that the wall separates your respective houses, front yards, and backyards. In this case, each one of you needed to respect each other topographic point as the narrator has said He is all pine and I am apple orchard. / My apple trees will never get across/ And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. Finally, in the last assertion that the wall serves as a common wall in the maintenance of friendship, the wall refers to the common and shared experiences that the neighbors have while mending the wall. These shared and common experiences make them cultivate their relationships even more. The same thing as in any other relationship, time with each other is really necessary. The neighbors shared experiences make them respect each others part of the wall. Moreover, it made them good neighbors. and set the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. / and some are loaves and some so nearly balls/ We have to use a turning to make them balance/ Stay where you are until our backs are turned / We wear our fingers rough with handling them. / Oh, just another kind of out-door game. As a conclusion, the wall symbolizes the nice and good factors in the maintenance of every relationship e very person has. The wall suggests that the important things in every relationship are barrier and commonalities as observed by the two neighbors in the poem.