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TPCASTT for Mending Wall, by Robert Frost

By: Brad Schiebel, Hannah Donlin, Eric Henderson

Claim #1 for Poem: In mENDING Wall, Robert Frost employs the use of allusions in order to emphasize how property lines become drawn to keep rules and order preserved.

Claim #2 for Poem: In Mending Wall, Robert Frost employs the use of repetition in order to stress the importance of building up walls around memories.

TPCASTT for Claim #1

T: Title- The title represents the importance of walls, property lines, and rules are. If you break down a wall, everything gets mashed together, rules crumble, and order dissolves. If you mend the wall, then it will bring order back once again.

P: Paraphrase-Sometimes things belong to others and you have to respect other people’s boundaries, privileges, and rights. The narrator is trying to say that some things are better left untouched and undisturbed in order to keep the peace. Also, the wall could be represented to put up a block around painful memories or experiences from the past.

C: Connotation-Frost uses words and phrases such as “that sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, and spills the upper boulders in the sun” to recognize how time can decompose the walls surrounding two different sides of a conflict, keeping peace. In addition to that, he adds as the neighbor puts it, “He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across, and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ ” This means that certain events and occurrences can never pass the laws and rules set up by people wanting to keep peace.

A: Attitude-Frost’s attitude towards the poem involves the narrator respecting the law that has been built up for a reason, even though the natural order of events has led to break it down. He is also very anticipating for something to come.

S: Shifts-In the beginning of the poem, Frost believes that a certain time away from paying attention to rules, order, and laws (the winter, hunters, and animals) causes the wall between chaos and control breaks down, and the neighbor who wants the wall to be rebuilt meets with the narrator to say nothing of his should come across the fence. But in the end, that same neighbor is the one going around the wall, symbolizing how he sneaks around rules, and he was the one who suggested it!

TPCASTT Claim #2

T: Title-The title represents how someone can be missing out in life, and once they do so, it is too late to change what has already been done.

P: Paraphrase-Throughout the poem, Frost tries to say that some experiences in life come and go, but some have once-in-a-lifetime open doors, and when those doors are closed, you can’t open them ever again. This means that life is a one-time thing, and do something while it lasts.

C: Connotation-Again, another way this poem could be interpreted is the way how the wall is painfully taken down by natural forces. He uses phrases like this: “And spills the upper boulders into the sun, and makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair, where they have left not one stone on a stone….” This excerpt from the text suggests that a natural order allows for painful memories to resurface, causing destruction and chaos in someone’s life. As well as painful memories can resurface, they can be re-buried. Another phrase states, “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out, and to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall….” This means that the narrator didn’t want to leave out everything, but wanted the worst parts of his experiences out of his life.

A: Attitude-Frost also treats this poem like the narrator fears his past heavily. Natural events led to his past catching up with him, so he is afraid that it will control his life. Adding on to that, the narrator is happy to reconstruct the wall, no matter what the consequences are.

S: Shifts-Towards the beginning, Frost recognizes that he has remembered some of the worst parts of his past due to some previous events in his life. Also, the shifts start when his neighbor offers to help rebuild the wall, stating, “Good fences make good neighbors.” This suggests that he is trying to keep the narrator from accessing any more horrors. In addition to that, the neighbor is the one sneaking around the wall, trying to antagonize the narrator with his experiences.

T: Title-At the beginning of this process, the title Mending Wall meant that the narrator wanted to get rid of some rather painful experiences, but when the neighbor offers to help rebuild the wall, he might be trying to help. However, at the end of the poem, the very same neighbor who wanted the wall rebuilt, was indicated to be seen sneaking around it, suggesting that he might have been the one to cause the narrator’s painful experiences.

T: Theme-Some things can be walled up and are better left untouched, unsaid, and unremembered.

Alternate claims: #1-Robert Frost uses personal experiences to show how walls can be broken down to reveal chaos.

Alternate Claim #2-Robert Frost describes the wall as a way to provide a solid way to maintain control and keep from everything falling into chaos.

T: Title- Once again, the title has a deeper meaning. Before, Frost indicated that it was just a way to maintain order and laws and rules. But now, it is not only that, but it can be broken down by a series of natural events, and if something from one side of the wall crosses to the other side, bad things can happen. And, even though the person suggesting the rebuilding of the wall can be good, he might try to evade the law in his own way.

T: Theme-Rules/laws are made for a specific purpose, to maintain order and to keep people from doing reckless things, and can be rebuilt even after the course of natural events.

T: Theme-Some things can be walled up and are better left untouched, unsaid, and unremembered.

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