Robert Frost v. Pink Floyd
From Robert Frost's Mending Wall to Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall, humankind erects and maintains real and symbolic barriers to protect and defend opposing stances, beliefs and territories. Although each "wall" is different they serve the same purpose and both Frost and Floyd oppose them. Robert Frost's Mending Wall is a very popular poem. This poem consists of two characters: the narrator and his neighbor. In this poem the two neighbors are mending a stone wall that separates their property. The wall mending has been a pastime of the neighbors for many years and occurs every spring. Over the winter the wall has fallen victim to both hunters and the frozen ground and, therefore, contains gaps that must be filled.In the poem the narrator questions the sense of even mending the wall . He concludes that neither of the farms contain animals, only trees, which would be enough of a boundary. There is no physical need for the wall, so why go through the trouble of fixing it every year for no apparent reason. Although the narrator is right
The barrier put up by education is just as unnecessary to Floyd as the stone wall is to Frost. The teachers in the song are doing the same thing that the neighbor's father did in the poem, reinforced and insured a lack of communication and ,therefore, ignorance in the next generation. The neighbor is a perfect example of the product of these barriers, he doesn't know truly know why the wall must be there but he never questions his father's words and understands that the wall is really keeping him and his neighbor from having a better friendship. Frost describes the neighbor "like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me."(Frost) This darkness is the ignorance that he displays as he mends the fence. Floyd relates to this dark ignorance with the "No dark sarcasm in the classroom!"(Floyd) The neighbor's father and they teachers parallel and the neighbor is their product. Although they are two diferent forms of literature both Frost's Mending Wall and Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall send the same message. That message
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Approximate Word count = 707
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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