Mending Wall and Birches Analysis

"The wall" which is used throughout the poem uses an extended metaphor for the divisions that exist between the neighbor and the speaker. Also "another kind of out-door game" is a metaphor in the process of wall-mending. In the first line the speaker starts off by questioning saying "something there is that doesn't love a wall" where "something" suggests that the wall destroying culprits around are not humans only, but there are other things also (Frost, 1914). An example of a metaphor in this poem is "my life is a roller coaster" which compares the life of the speaker to a roller coaster with ups and downs. The predominant speaker's tones used in this poem are those of humor, irony, and questioning.