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This seems to happen a lot with Robert Frost poems... "Mending Wall" seems to be about enjoying working alongside a neighbor to fix their stone wall, but it's r
by lubujackson 11y ago
This seems to happen a lot with Robert Frost poems... "Mending Wall" seems to be about enjoying working alongside a neighbor to fix their stone wall, but it's really more of a lament about the walls people build between each other.
- Double_Cast 11y agoThis one time at the library, I picked up a Frost anthology with commentary and skimmed it for about 30 minutes. The main thrust I took away from the author's commentary was that Frost was notorious for his sense of sarcasm. It was sort of his shtick. But he was so subtle about it, he often lamented that nobody recognized his genius. I had an English professor who also held a congruent opinion of Frost. He said that during Frost's own lifetime, academics and plebs alike heralded him as this wise, folksy, american farmer. They adored him. Then a few decades after he died, academia reread Frost's poems and said "Holy cow, these are actually pretty depressing."