Frost's "Mending Wall" vs. Floyd's "The Wall"

From Robert Frost's Mending Wall to Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall, humankind erects and maintains real and symbolic barriers to protect and defend opposing stances, beliefs and territories. Although each "wall" is different they serve the same purpose and both Frost and Floyd oppose them. Robert Frost's Mending Wall is a very popular poem. This poem consists of two characters: the narrator and his neighbor. In this poem the two neighbors are mending …

…thought. Although they are two diferent forms of literature both Frost's Mending Wall and Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall send the same message. That message is to think. Works Cited "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)," (Pink Floyd, Columbia Records, 1979) Frost, Robert. "Mending Wall." http://students.ou.edu/d/arnie.a.doughty-1/1213/frostwall.htm (7 June 1998) Knap, Joe. "Mending Walls: Barriers in Communications." Lesson Plans. http://www.rockhall.com/educate/lssnplan/lesson24.html (7 June 1998).