FREE ESSAY ON MENDING WALL BY ROBERT FROST

MENDING WALL BY ROBERT FROST

Through my thoughts, to mend a wall is to fix a barrier of their life or to be more
cautious of what people say and do. In other words I think this particular wall is
between two friends, a wall of dispute or privacy, a invisible wall is slowly being
built. It is the nature of man kind to defend for themselves and to keep things that want
to be a secret stay a secret. It is also a tendency for people who want to try to fix the
relationship or to find out what things are being kept from them like Frost says in the
poem "something there is that doesn't love a wall, that want it down". Everyone wants to
get along well again with their friends family or their special someone, they want to be
accepted and trusted once again, and that's what I think that doesn't love a wall. The
feeling you get when someone looses trust in you or when someone is angry at your
actions. But being ignorant and stubborn as we all are, we do not forgive and forget
right away. " "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" We wear out our fingers
rough with handling them." To me people do not forgive one another so quickly because
then want assurance that the other is honest about being sorry or regretful for what they
have said or done. Both must go through "wear out their fingers" a lot to achieve the
point where they forgive or are forgiven. That is all part of the way we live our lives
its like "another kind of outdoor game".
Although one may forgive another, there are people out there who do not deserve to be
forgiven, for they only take advantage of the willingness of the other to forgive them
and will reiterate the things they did in the past. Hoping to always go through life the
easy way. "My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell
him.". Some people who have come to their senses or those who have thought about the
things that were done to them and have learned from them will know what Frost means when
he says "Good fences make good neighbors" , and most of the time the people who caused
the problem will not. They will not understand because they are selfish and do not
understand what they have done and why it is wrong. They will never understand until they
truthfully admit that they are wrong, because there is a point when one person can no
longer take the abuse and will build a fence or a wall, because good fences do make good
neighbors. If you trust and forgive your someone too much it will only lead to more
trouble, be cautious and learn to back away or reject a person if you are being
mistreated, and if they really care or wants to be a "good neighbor" they will respect
your thoughts and will learn they have said or done to you was wrong. A strong
relationship requires quarrels and forgiveness, if either one is missing from this world,
it would either be utopian or hell. So forgive and forget, but also learn from what has
happened because day by day, year by year the wall in our lives will need to be mended.