Mending Wall|Robert Frost|Summary&Analysis

Mending Wall|Robert Frost|Summary&Analysis

Mending Wall|Robert Frost

The famous poem "Mending Wall' was composed by the American poet Robert Frost. It was composed in 1913 and published in the second volume of his poems "North of Boston" in 1914. This poem is written in blank verse. It has 46 lines. It is a narrative poem. 
It describes the story of two villagers of New England. In this poem, the poet describes the customs, beliefs and traditions of the villagers living in the countryside. 

The poem "Mending Wall" is a poem related to the mending or repairing of a wall between two fields in a village. There are two farmers who are owners of these two farms. In this poem, one farmer is a young man and the other is an old man. So there is the difference between their thoughts.
Their thinking was totally different from each other. There was a conflict between them related to the mending of a wall between their farms. Actually, the old farmer wanted to make a wall between their fields but the young farmer did not want. 
Therefore there was the dispute between them. In this poem, there was a conflict between the thinking of two generations new and old. 
According to the young farmer, there is no need for the wall but the old farmer favours the need for a wall between their farms. As we study the poem it shows the practice of repairing the wall between two farms.

The young farmer says that there is a supernatural power at work to remove the wall between their field. Therefore frost brings down the stones of the wall. The young man also says that it is not the work of hunters. 

The poet further says that every year in spring season the holes appear again in the walls and both the farmers repair the wall on their respective sides. 
On the other hand, the young farmer says that there is no need for making the wall as their fields are already divided by nature. Their crops are different. one has apple trees and other has pine trees in their field. 

The young man again asks the old man why this wall is needed between their fields. After all, they are good neighbours. They do not need this type of barrier between them. After some time the old man comes with two stones in his hands. He seems to the young man like a wild beast of the stone age.

According to the young man, the old man was uncivilized. The old man believed in orthodoxy because according to the old man there should be wall to keep good relations with neighbours. The old man always said that "Good fences are good neighbours". 

Thus the poet shows the narrowness of old people. As we are living in the age of science and modernity. There is no space for old narrow ideas and orthodoxy. There is a need for universal brotherhood.

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The Road Not Taken|Robert Frost|Summary&Analysis

The Road Not Taken|Robert Frost|Summary&Analysis

The Road Not Taken

The poem "The Road Not Taken" was written by the very popular American writer Robert Frost. This poem is about a traveller who has a problem in choosing his road or it was a real experience of the writer while travelling somewhere. When the writer was ready to go somewhere, he saw two separated roads. Here the writer was confused in choosing the right road for him. Both roads got lost into the forest of yellow coloured trees. 

The writer could not decide which was the right way to travel because he could not travel through both the roads at the same time. He was in great confusion so he thought about it for a long time. In the beginning, he thought that one road better than the other but he could not see clearly far enough because after some distance It was lost into bushes and trees.

After it, he saw the second road carefully but it also looked the same as the first road. According to the poet, the second road was better because the grass on it had not been worn out because the travellers had not walked on it very frequently. On the other hand, both the roads were similar.

The poet had only confusion that the second road was better than first. As both the roads were covered with leaves and now the poet was confused in making the right choice. It was the morning time and it was now important for him to chose a road. At last, he decided to make his travel by the second road. He left the first road for some other day.

He knew that it had become difficult for him to return to that place from where he had started. In this way, the poet was describing his decision of choosing the second road for travel and leaving the first road. He also said that in future he would regret for his wrong decision. 

Actually, the poet had chosen the road which had been less travelled by a large number of travellers. According to the poet, his decision might be wrong in future and for it, he would be responsible because he had chosen according to his own choice.

Thus the poem is also related to the journey of a human being. Sometimes we are also in the same situation of life where we have to choose one option and take a decision immediately and we are in confusion which option will be right for us. Actually, the road in this poem symbolizes our life. 

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The Lady of Shalott|summary|analysis

The Lady of Shalott|summary|analysis

The poem "The Lady of Shalott" was written about a lady who lived on the island of Shalott. The poet calls her the Lady of Shalott. She lived there alone. There were four towers in the living place of the lady of Shalott. It was surrounded by four grey walls.
There is also a beautiful small garden around her living place. The lady of Shalott lived a life of seclusion. She did not know the hard realities of life. Her life was unreal. She always became busy in weaving a magical web. Someone told her that if she stops weaving, she will fall prey to a curse. Many boats passed through the river to Camelot but no one had ever seen the lady of Shalott. It seemed as no one knew her.
Only reapers could hear her songs in the morning when they went to the field. No one had seen her with his eyes. Thus she lived a lonely life. She saw outside people through a mirror that hangs before her in her room. She saw everything reflected in the mirror. She saw in the mirror the fields of barley and rye, the river, village men and women and sometimes girls doing their works. She saw in her mirror a group of young girls, a shepherd boy, a servant boy wearing red clothes, a row of knights going from the road but she was happy in weaving the beautiful scenes that she saw in the mirror. But now she had become tired of seeing only their shadows. She wanted to see all these things in real.

One day she saw Sir Lancelot in the fields of barley. He was sitting on his horse. His horse was decorated with beautiful stones. The lady of Shalott was so much impressed after seeing his reflection. Therefore she left weaving her web and looked down to Camelot where Lancelot was going. As soon as, she saw Lancelot the curse came upon her. Her web floats outside and her mirror cracks from side to side. 
After it, The wind blows fast, the wood grows pale and it begins to rain. The lady of Shalott leaves her home and finds a boat in the river. She writes her name on it. and lies in the boat. She loses the chain of the boat. People hear her song. she keeps on singing till her death. In this way, she dies singing her last song. After it, people see her dead body lying in the boat and read her name written on it. The people come to know her identity as the lady of Shalott.

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