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Directions: Practice close reading skills while reading the following text,
Mending Wall by Robert Frost. While reading the poem, break when
signaled by the stop signs embedded throughout the text, and answer the
questions that correspond to that particular section of the reading.
Important Vocabulary:
1. Abreast: (adverb, adjective) side by side; beside each other in a line
2. Yelping: (verb) to give a quick, sharp, shrill cry
3. Gap: (noun) a break or opening, as in a fence, wall, or military line;
breach
4. Mend: (verb) to make whole, sounds, or usable by repairing
Mending Wall
Robert Frost, 1874 1963
1. What do the neighbors do to the wall between their properties each spring?
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2. What do you think the something that doesnt love a wall is?
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3. My Question:
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(15) We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
7. What is the nonliteral of hidden meaning behind line 24, He is all pine and I am
apple orchard?
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8. Why does the narrator repeat the statement, Good fences make good neighbors
in the last line of the poem? How does the meaning of these words change?
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9. How would you compare and contrast the character traits of the two men in this
poem? What can you infer about their relationship?
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10. What are the poets messages or implied themes in this poem?
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11. My Question:
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