Mending Wall - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

I am studying two works one by Toni Morrison called Recitatif and one by Robert Frost about walls. Of the two I had more experience with Frost whose the Road less taken poem meant more to me than Mending Wall. Still I do think for an iambic pentameter verse it has many interesting sides. I like the first line the best. I am a person who after being robbed actually ended up being the one behind bars since I have lockable cattle gates at the end of the driveway and burglary alarms with monitoring set for the house. Yet one thing is still certain, we need to be open as people, and cautious with wisdom knowing we all also need our space. Walls of stone also have another meaning to me. Many were made by picking up loose stones blocking pathways and horse routes or plowing zones and putting the stones from the land on edges out of the way. This is common in Shakertown where Irish stone masons made fences and boundary marks without mortar. A wall can have many meanings to keep out, to keep in, to mark territory, or preserve space, or to open up the middle ground. I am doing a book review Thursday night with friends and as a lover of books, it gives me something to look forward to on a Thursday night. Mending Wall - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More