Physical and Metaphorical Walls in Poetry – “Mending Wall” and “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”
“Good fences makes good neighbors” is an old British proverb that Robert Frost revitalized in his 1914 poem “Mending Wall.” According to the narrator’s neighbor, personal space is an unavoidable part of getting along, even if the boundary between people is only psychological. What good fences don’t make, however, is a whole lot of sense…
