Mending Wall

Mending Wall Biography Robert Frost was inspired to write Mending Wall after talking with one of his farming friend Napoleon Guay. He learned from talking with his neighbor that writing in the tones of real life is an important factor in his poetic form (Liu,Tam). Henry David Thoreau once stated that, “A true account of the actual is the purest poetry.” Another factor that might have played a role in inspiring Frost to write …

…Like most of Frost’s other poems, the majority of this poem was thought up in the narrator’s head. And like his other poems, their contained dialogue, a setting, characters, a conflict and an ending. Form This poem was written in blank verse and not a free verse because it was written in an iambic pentameter without rhyme. It went stressed-unstressed for 5 meters. All 45 five lines were written in iambic pentameter, and voiced narratively.