Mending wall 英语诗歌赏析-课件.ppt

Mending WallRobert Frost Something there is that doesnt love a wall,That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.something—nature It is nature that damage the wall. The work of hunters is another thing:I have come after them and made repairWhere they have left not one stone on a stone,But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,No one has seen them made or heard them made,But at spring mending-time we find them there.“I” symbolizes the younger generation who calls for a complete social change. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;And on a day we meet to walk the lineAnd set the wall between us once again.We keep the wall between us as we go.“neighbor” symbolizes the old generation who tries to keep the tradition and hates reform and change.to measure To each the boulders that have fallen to each.And some are loaves and some so nearly ballsWe have to use a spell to make them balance:Stay where you are until our backs are turned!‘We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,One on a side. It comes to little more:There where it is we do not need the wall:He is all pine and I am apple orchard.My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”The apple trees are personified, as the speaker claims that they will never wander across and eat the pine cones on his neighbor’s property.But the neighbor insists on his thought. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:“Why do they make good neighbors? Isnt itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I built a wall Id ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offense.make his neighbor understandimply his neighbor’s stubborn and the speaker couldn’t change his mind.rhetoric— To claim that we don’t nee