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MENDING WALL

By Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

And spills the upper boulders in the sun,

And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

The work of hunters is another thing:

I have come after them and made repair

Where they have left not one stone on a stone,

But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,

To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,

No one has seen them made or heard them made,

But at spring mending-time we find them there.

I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;

And on a day we meet to walk the line

And set the wall between us once again.

We keep the wall between us as we go.

To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

And some are loaves and some so nearly balls

We have to use a spell to make them balance:

'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'

We wear our fingers rough with handling them.

Oh, just another kind of out-door game,

One on a side. It comes to little more:

There where it is we do not need the wall:

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

My apple trees will never get across

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

If I could put a notion in his head:

'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it

Where there are cows?

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But here there are no cows.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offence.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,

But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather

He said it for himself. I see him there

Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.

He moves in darkness as it seems to me~

Not of woods only and the shade of trees.

He will not go behind his father's saying,

And he likes having thought of it so well

He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

In this poem the dualism is make opposition between the condition of the speaker and the

neighbor in this poem. There is gap from this wall. The wall makes gap even two can pass

abreast. In first line from the word” something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that sends the

upper boulders in the sun” the speaker want to tell separated condition between the speaker

and the neighbor. Desirability the speaker to breaking of the walls.

Then in line five and six. The speaker tell the work hunters is another thing it means that the

neighbour is work in hunting something that for fill the neighbor life. And hunters is identic

with primitive people who still life with hunting something to eat. And then the word after the

work hunters is another thing”, it means that there is no in the speaker habit in his

environment or habitually. Then it’s all is concerned our self. The speaker not know the

neighbor activity and the other way.

In line 24 “he is all pine and i am apple orchard”. The speaker use metaphor to the neighbor.

The speaker claims he is apple orchard. Apple orchard metaphor to extraordinary, modern,

exspensive and thoroughness. When we have apple orchard we imagine that apple is fruits

which exspensive to sell. And if we have apple orchard we need to take care it. And we need

tools when we will wipe off apple orchard. So if we will save and process the apple orchard,

we also need skills and technology. The modern technology to process the ground. And just

people who have prosperous life that can have modern technology to process the ground

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well. So it’s produce good apple orchard. The speaker has been used modern technology, it

means she is modern people and he has prosperous life. The reader use modern technology

to stay alive, to work and the result of his work is abundant and make him to be rich people,

so he has prosperous life. So the apple orchard is treat of modern situation and has opposite

with the neighbor that they are pine. Characteristic of pines are tall, wild, illegal, and the

fruits of pine can not to eat. Pine is live in forest. So like the life of forest there is no rules.

There are wild and who have a power they dominance. It’s show that the neighbor are

primitive and still live with old tradition. There is no rules who has power he dominance. And

primitive people live in proverty. Not yet reach prosperity and no modern technology. The

speaker said that the neighbor is savage (primitive/old people).

The speaker also say the neighbor like “elves” in line 36. Elves is symbol of primitive life.

Elves is slave that can to ordered by employer. Elves identic with bad clothes and the people

who lives in magic traditions. For instance goblin in harry potter movie, phisically goblin has

bad clothes and very primitive people. He very obedient with his boss and all boss said. And

it makes that the neighbor like people who live in primitive century. Different with the speaker

like apple orchard with best technology for his live.

It’s opposite with the speaker the neighbour doesn’t want the wall disappear. He feels good

fences make good neighbors (line 27, line 30, line 45). The neighbor feel fine with there is

wall between them and the speaker. They feel unsecured if the wall disappear.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

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Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I marked the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

The dualism in poem “The Road Not Taken” is similarity. Similarity means the similar

between 2 thing that have strained situation and each have attractive power. In this poem

The Road Not Taken explain the two roads that with differences characteristic.

There are two roads have different characteristic and similarity too. The similarity of these

roads is when in the morning, both roads are same, not yet through by people, in stanza 3,

lines 1 & 2, “And both that morning equally lay, In leaves no step had trodden black.”

Although different, but both roads has similarity, only in the morning both roads still fresh and

quite situation, no footstep through the roads because people not yet walk in these roads

(trodden black). It means that when the speaker will choose ‘ways of life’ and there are two

choises ways of life that should be choosen by the speaker. Both choises not yet passed by

people and each of these ways has the same opportunity and has the same challenge.

The differences of those roads are :

The characteristic of first road was grassy, (in stanza 2, line 3). The grassy road is easy road

to through because there is no underbrush but there is grass was grow on the road so it’s

indicate that this road is travelled by many people. people want to use that road as their

street to go because this road is easy and comfort. The road means the ways of life and

many people choose this way of life that have through by many people in the world. Many

people think that this way of life is easy to do, They think like that because they are not yet

feel it and through it because they just see that most of people take this way of life and don’t

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have any problem with their life. Actually, this way also has diffculty and all of ways of life

has joy and sorrow, but the speaker doesn’t choose this way of life (first road). They just

follow what people choose generally. They dont choose their own way.

The characteristic of second road was less traveled by people, (in stanza 4, line 3). The

second road is traveled by people but less traveler. Then the speaker decide to choose this

road. The road that usually less traveler is a road that difficult to through, there is underbrush

that make the road is difficult. It means that the speaker choose this way of life that seldom

choosen by people. Many barriers in this way of life, so people who choose this way must

struggle to do this life to get succesfull career, that’s why this way of life is choosen by a few

people because sometimes some people doesn’t want to struggle to raise it, they want

instant way. It showed in stanza 4, line 1, “I shall be telling this with a sigh”. ‘Sigh’ is showing

a sense, sense of life, the speaker feel doubt choose this way. But the speaker constant to

choose this way. Because this way id differences with another way. And the speaker want

make different with another people. The speaker choose his own life. So it’s indicate that the

speaker is arogances people.

Then in first stanza in line 1, “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” it’s make the situation in

this poem are spring and bright. When spring the leaves of trees is yellow and flowers are

blossom. And the yellow wood is in all roads. The first and second roads. And each have

differences and similarity.

FIRE AND ICE

By Robert frost

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

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Dualism in the poem "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost, the world will be destroyed and ended

with a fire and ice, where the fire mean desire and ice mean hate. The speaker believes that

the world will end in fire. Fire and Ice are walking succession and cause the same thing,

destruction. The enmity in fire and ice are the same, make situation is not comfort and the

world will end caused fire (desire) and ice (hate).

The characteristics of fire are hot, spread, physical distruction and the destruction is appear

and it can see with eyes. There are victims caused the destruction of fire. Fire is expressed

as “desire”, it means anger, emotion that impact destruction. When people have an action

that make a change, from just silent action can make chaotic around them. That action for

example the people angry and throw down forcefully the thing near him. Dualism in fire can

destroy world and make opposition.

The dualism in ice is not destroy the world and there is no make opposition.The

characteristics of ice is cold, there is no movement. Ice is expressed as “hate”, hate and ice

can make destructions inside of them, although there is no movement and there is an energy

to destroy in silent, no change in physical, doesn’t appear and it can’t see with eyes. In a

people life, there are also suspicious each other, comming of treason from best friend or

trusted people, reverenge, slander and spy. Hate is inside conflict of human.