1. “Mending Wall” - Robert Frost
Modernism
“Mending Wall” - Robert Frost

2. Warmup
Workbook pgs 219, 249
Page copy lit terms into notebook glossary
Lit Terms (copy bullet points also): blank verse, pastoral
Page make vocab cards
Vocab 24-26: luminary, poise, rueful
Page Read Robert Frost bio
write 3 important facts on POEM worksheet
Homework: Vocab cards, “Mending Wall” packet (will work on today in class)

3. “Mending Wall” - Robert Frost
Look at title - what do you think this poem is about?
First read: circle unfamiliar words
Did you hear/see anything interesting?
First impressions?
What is the subject?
Second read: underline connotative words
What kind of mood do you get from the poem?
Who do you think the speaker is?
How does the speaker feel about the subject?

4. Frost’s farm in Derry, New Hamp.

5. What is this a picture of?
How might this represent the central theme of the poem?
What literal or figurative meanings do walls have?

6. Who does the neighbor learn the idea that “Good fences make good neighbors” from? What does this indicate?
“We wear our fingers rough with handling them” (20)
What is the speaker talking about?
What underlying meaning might this have?
“... I see him there / Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top / In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. (38-40) Connotation?
“He moves in darkness as it seems to me” (41) Connotation?