“Mending Wall”
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Assignment
- Reading:
- Robert Frost "Mending
Wall"
- Packet 1b-2 & "Leda & the Swan," "Leda"
- Writing:
- What myth do these poems deal with? How does that myth relate to the Odyssey? To 's death?
- What is the focus of "Leda and the Swan"? Of "Leda"? How do the titles relate to these foci?
- Why does Yeats describe the swan as "feathered glory" and "the brute blood of the air"? How does this relate to the swan's identity?
- How would you answer Yeats' last question? How does Van Duyn in "Leda"?
- What motivates the swan in the two poems? How do the motives differ?
- How does Van Duyn contrast Leda's fate in "men's stories"
with her actual fate? How do artists go about selecting the
portions of life they depict? Why?
- In what ways do "Good fences make good neighbors"?
- In what ways do they not?
- What is it that doesn't like a wall?
- Why do the men repair the fence?