Mendingwall英语诗歌赏析.ppt

Mending WallRobert 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.something—nature It is nature that damage the wall.The work of hunters is another thing:I have come after them and made repairWhere 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” symbolizes the younger generation who calls for a complete social change.I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;And on a day we meet to walk the lineAnd set the wall between us once again.We keep the wall between us as we go.“neighbor” symbolizes the old generation who tries to keep the tradition and hates reform and change.to measureTo each the boulders that have fallen to each.And some are loaves and some so nearly ballsWe 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 outdoor 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 acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”The apple trees are personified, as the speaker claims that they will never wander across and eat the pine cones on his neighbor’s property.But the neighbor insists on his thought.Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:“Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offense.make his neighbor understandimply his neighbor’s stubborn and the speaker couldn’t change his mind.rhetoric— To claim that we don’t need the wall.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 ratherHe said it for himself. I see him thereBringing a stone grasped firmly by the topIn each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.Imply his neighbor is a old –fashioned, conservative man.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 wellHe says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”The speaker fails to convince his neighbor. The wall is a sign of civilization which can keep the savage out. But the wall may be a barrier between the people. It makes the people miss the chance to communicate with each other. In this aspect, the wall is unnecessary. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, which will break the wall. Because this wall is against people’s satisfaction, even again the nature. So the power tendency will destroy it sooner or later.ContradictionThe poet shows great concern for nature, human society and spirit, which is a synecdoche of the relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and self; which is futher an alarm for human beings in ecological dilemma. Frost is mending a wall, what’s more, he is mending the gaps in modern man’s psyche.Something there is that doesn’t love a wall. Good fences make good neighbors. Thanks for your attention!。