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1、OnRobertFrost’s“MendingWall” Abstract：In“MendingWall”,RobertFrostexpresseshisopinionontheideasofbarriersbetweenpeople,communication,friendshipandthesenseofsecuritypeoplegainfrombarriers.Thestyleoflanguageofthepoem,therhetoricaldevicesused,anditsthemeshowhowaseeminglysi
2、mplepoemrequiresclosereadingtodiscoveritsartisticcharmanditsfullmeaning. Keywords：styleoflanguage;rhetoricaldevices;theme 中图分类号：I106.2文献标识码：A文章编号：1672-1578（2013)03-0010-02 RobertFrost,whowonthePulitzerPrizefourtimes,isanimportantAmericanpoetinthe20thcentury.Heisalsoc
3、onsideredaregionalpoetwhosesubjectmattersmainlyfocusonthelandscapeandpeopleinNewEngland.Hispoem“MendingWall”iscountrysideinitssetting.RobertFrostoncesaidthatapoemshould“beginindelightandendinwisdom”(qtd.inCheng2001170).Simplelanguage,gracefulstyle,traditionalform,andpro
4、foundideasarethemaincharacteristicsofhispoetry.“MendingWall”isnoexception.Thispaperattemptstoanalyzethispoemfromtheperspectivesofitslanguage,therhetoricaldevicesused,andits10theme,showinghowaseeminglysimplepoemrequiresclosereadingtodiscoveritsartisticcharmanditsfullmean
5、ing. 1TheStyleofLanguageofthePoem “MendingWall”isalongone-stanzapoem.Itiswritteninblankverseandcontainsanarrative-likestyle.Frosthadrejectedtherevolutionarypoeticprinciplesofhiscontemporaries,choosinginstead“theold-fashionedwaytobenew”(qtd.inWu179).Byusingsimplespoken
6、languageandconversationalrhythms,Frostachievedaneffortlessgraceinhisstyle.Hecombinedtraditiona1verseformswith“aclearAmericanlocalspeechrhythm,thespeechofNewEnglandfarmerswithitsidiosyncraticdictionandsyntax”(“RobertLeeFrost”).TheVocabularyofthepoemmakesreadersbepersonal
7、lyonthesceneofNewEnglandcountryside.Theycansee“hunters”,“therabbit”,“theyelpingdogs”,“pine”,“cones”,and“appleorchard”.ThedictionFrostchoosesiswhatthecountryfolkuseintheirdailylife,whichvividlyportraysthedifferentcharactersofthetwoneighbors.Theconversationbetweenthetwone
8、ighborsisagoodexample.Thenarratorstraightforwardlystateshisopinionthat“Therewhereitiswedonotneedthewall”,andne
