Help! Some questions about American literature!
By luzhuniu_520
@luzhuniu_520 (23)
China
September 28, 2007 8:59pm CST
In the postgraduation-examination last year, I have almost lost all the points in the last question. It seemed very difficult to me as a chinese student.I did not know the correct answers now.It's about Robert Frost's poem_____Mending Wall.The questions are:
1.What might the "something" be that "doesn't love a wall"? Why does the speaker remind his neighbor each spring that the wall needs to be repaired? Is it ironic that the speaker initiates the mending? Is there anything good about the wall?
2. How do the speaker and his neighbor in this poem differ in senibilities? What is suggested about the neighbor in lines 41 and 42?
3. The neighbor likes the saying"Good fences make good neighbors" so well that he repeats it in line 27 45.Does the speaker also say something twice?What else suggests that the speaker's attitude toward the wall is not necessarily Frost's?
4.Although the speaker's language is colloquial,what is poetic about the sounds and rhythms he uses?
5.The poem was first publishished in 1914:Frost read it to an audience when he visited Russia in 1962.What do these facts suggests about the symbolic value of "Mending Wall".
If you have time,please try to answer these questions. If you are busy,do not waste time on it.I also thank you for your reading.Thank you.
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