Mowing," and "Mending Wall," by Robert Frost. Specifically, it will establish some points of similarity and difference in the two works. Both "Mowing" and "Mending Wall" celebrate the joy of honest labor, but with two very different results. In "Mowing," the man is satisfied by his labor, but in "Mending Wall," the man is not.

ROBERT FROST POEMS

The narrator in "Mending Wall" never names himself, but he does not need to. It is clear who he is as the lines of the poem develop themselves. He is a gentle man, who does not really need the fence to show what land is his, and what land belongs to his neighbors. "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out, / And to whom I was like to give offence" (Frost). Frost shows he is kind and gentle by the way...
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