| Autor: |
Misselwitz, Philipp, Rieniets, Tim, Efrat, Zvi, Khamaisi, Rassem, Nasrallah, Rami, Paz-Fuchs, Amir, Cohen-Bar, Efrat |
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City of Collision; 2006, p227-234, 8p |
| Abstrakt: |
The irony expressed in Robert Frost's Mending Wall line: "good fences make good neighbors," seems to have been lost on many readers who have opted to take it literally. Presumably, these readers thought that Frost was suggesting a counter-intuitive and, thus, thought-provoking idea: that a fence, which appears to separate, may actually bond by allowing parties on both sides to develop their autonomous lifestyles and interact on mutually agreed grounds. It is now accepted that Frost was, in fact, mocking the rhetoric that rationalizes division and segregation as preferable to unity and solidarity. Indeed, the opening line of the poem, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall," is key to understanding its final phrase, quoted above. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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