As a strong advocate of individualism, Frost thought man should learn his limitations from nature and struggle to achieve whatever he can within these boundaries with the talents he has been granted. Conversely, Frost saw man as achieving little if he considers only himself, isolated from those around him (Gerber 146). Frost lived a life darker than most men experience. With the death of his father at age eleven and his son at age four, he was never able to fully experience male companionship. He wrote about this type of relationship in his poems and the underlying message, which must be looke

The strength of "Mending Wall," one of Frost's most often quoted poems, rests upon a contradiction. Its two most famous lines oppose each other (Untermeyer 110). The poem maintains that:

The large body of commentary on this poem includes discussion of it as a social metaphor and as an illustration of a personal struggle for balance between withdrawal and commitment, individuality and socialization, as this conflict occurs throughout Frost's poetry and life (Marcus 34). "Mending Wall" is often quoted out of context and mistakenly said to declare that "Good fences make good neighbors," which-as Frost sometimes had to point out-is the formula of the poem's antagonist (Marcus 42). This means that Frost may have favored the other man's belief and thought that "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" and that there shouldn't be unnecessary physical barriers between people because they become social barriers as well.

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)