ENG 2104 Lecture 4: Robert Frost
13 Sep 2016
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Comma with coordinating conjunction: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. Frost is usually calling into questions the views expressed in his poems. The wall seems to have the potential to symbolize almost anything nationalism, religious belief, atomized society, and personal selfishness . This abstract potential at odds with the poem"s essential materiality. Frost = deeply elusive poet cannot read too much into it. Through arguments of the words, they are building the wall. Social life they have to keep talking to each other because they have to mend the wall. The neighbor says he doesn"t want to talk to him, but he still does. Aphorisms boundary, structures of thought something there is that doesn"t love a wall . Warren and mary debate what to do about silas while he dies in the next room (irony) Tries to capture american speech and its rhythms. Compare these writers with previous generation of dialect writers, such as twain and chesnutt.
