Mending Wall

Mending Wall

LINE 1:

• 'something' = supernatural
  

LINE 2:

• 'frozen-ground-swell under it' = contrast to on sense of nature

LINE 6:

• 'them' = loves nature not the hunter

LINE 9:

• 'yelping dogs' = unpleasent

LINE 10:

• 'no one has seen them made or heard them made' = magical tone
• mystery 
• linguistic manipulation

LINES 10-12:

• creative, imaginative

LINES 13-14:

• meeting to fill gaps - ironic - wants distance but needs to work together / always keeps the wall there

LINE 16:

• seperation of boulders

LINE 17:

• metaphor

LINE 19:

• authenticate + dramatise
• breif digalogue = fleeting interaction

LINE 20:

• 'we wear' = alliteration

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