Discuss the significant features of Robert Frost’s poetry? Answer with special reference to ‘Mending Wall’ and ‘Birches’.

of the poems that would later appear in North of Boston and Mountain Interval (1916). In 1909 Frost left the farm to teach in New Hampshire. From there he sold his farm and moved to England in 19 12 because he was unable to find publishers for his work in the land of his birth. Within a month of his arrival in England he was able to publish his poems and North of Boston won praise from Ezra Pound. Within two years his volumes had appeared in America andhe won a number of honours, including election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

“,Mending Wall” –

In this poem Frost takes a very ordinary incident, building or repairing a wall between his neighbour’s garden and his, and turns it into a meditation on the divisions between human beings. While his neighbour believes that “Good fences make good neighbours,” Frost questions this point-of-view. According to him land should be shared with trust and a mutual understanding. Walls give him a sense of being “walled in” or “wallet! out” that is ‘cut off from his immediate environment’ and he does not enjoy this. There are no cows to stray from his garden into his neighbour’s– why then, the wall, the fence?

From this ordinary incident Frost wants to suggest deeper meanings about the way