CHALLENGING THE TIME-HONORED: A MULTI-LAYER STUDY OF ROBERT FROST’S “MENDING WALL”

Abstract

This paper strives to figure out the resonating potentials of Robert Frost’s poetry. Most often he is thought a poet of nature, but looking into his poetry it gets revealed that his poetry can reflect contemporary problems as well. The aimed paper takes Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” as a source of interpretation and its multiplicity in terms of meanings and voicing contemporary issues. The author is underpinning some issues like expansionism, nationalism, post-colonial concern, globalization and it’s repercussions in the context of the poem, “Mending Wall”. The forgoing terminologies are also the findings of this paper. In addition, close reading technique is used as method of interpretation for the paper.