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• ‘My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines’ In the light of your reading of the poem ‘Mending Wall’, prepare a write- up expressing your views on the above quoted lines.
• (a) What is referred to as just another outdoor game?(b) Why does the speaker call it a game?
• “I let my neighbour know…” What did the speaker let the neighbour know?
• Elaborate the idea in the following line in a paragraph:“Good fences make good neighbours.”
• How does the neighbour justify the need for waits or fences?
• The two characters, the speaker and the neighbour have two totally opposing views on having a wall between their fields.Given below are a few statements, opinions and attitudes. Say who does each apply to. 1. something there is that doesn’t love a wall. 2. good fences make good neighbours.3. very conservative4. logical and reasonable5. light-hearted, humorous 6. playing safe 7. respects tradition 8. even God and nature seem to be against a wall between men A 9. apple orchard 10. living beyond the hills 11. an old stone savage12. cosmopolitan in outlook
• The speaker says, “I rather / he said it for himself (a) What does “it” refer to here?(b) What does the speaker mean by this statement?
• Darkness refers to(a) darkness In the woods under the shade of a tree.(b) mental darkness, ignorance(c) his ‘blindness’ to see the light in the speaker’s arguments
• ‘Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends a frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.’ Keeping in view the socio-cultural scenario of our nation write a paragraph elaborating the idea conveyed by Robert Frost in ‘Mending Wall’.
• Why does the poet say that there is something that doesn’t love, a wall?