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

for love -but a refreshing dose of birch-climbing would be a welcome respite.

The influence of the English Romantic poet Wordsworth, who composed The Prelude, on this poem is marked–we have the same fond recollection of a childhood closeness to nature, the same sense of oppression of an adult life spent apart from nature and the same sense of nature’s rejuvenating energy.

Note the effectiveness with which Frost captures the rhythms and the locutions of the speaking voice with the use of the first person singular and conversational phrases like “Often you must have seen them” (L5) or “You’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen” (L 13) or “But I was going to say when Truth broke in/With all

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