Robert Frost v. Pink Floyd
From Robert Frost's Mending Wall to Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall, humankind erects and maintains real and symbolic barriers to protect and defend opposing stances, beliefs and territories. Although each "wall" is different they serve the same purpose and both Frost and Floyd oppose them. Robert Frost's Mending Wall is a very popular poem. This poem consists of two characters: the narrator and his neighbor. In this poem the two neighbors are mending a stone wall that separates their property. The wall mending has been a pastime of the neighbors for many years and occurs every spring. Over the winter the wall has fallen victim to both hunters and the frozen ground and, therefore, contains gaps that must be filled.In the poem the narrator questions the sense of even mending the wall . He concludes that neither of the farms contain animals, only trees, which would be enough of a boundary. There is no physical need for the wall, so why go through the trouble of fixing it every year for no apparent reason. Although the narrator is right
"(Floyd)The barrier put up by education is just as unnecessary to Floyd as the stone wall is to Frost. the ignorant neighbor insists that they mend the wall by saying "Good fences make good neighbors. As it is stated in the song: "All in all you're(teachers) just another brick in the wall. In this song, as in Mending Wall, a barrier is discussed, but this time it is a phsycological barrier instead of a physical one. The speakers of the song are students and the poem is directed towards teachers. These barriers are what keep people from questioning or even contemplating things that happen in every day life. Mending Wall, although it doesn't appear it on the surface, almost parallels to a popular Pink Floyd song, Another Brick in the Wall. He moves in darkness as it seems to me. Frost is criticizing the ignorance of the neighbor here. These barriers are often subconsciously put up and strengthened by society and may control one's thought. Although they are two diferent forms of literature both Frost's Mending Wall and Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall send the same message. Frost and Floyd have provided us with two very different situations in which this technique may be used as a warning to help us to prevent the further control of our thought and to help us eventually attain freedom of thought. The teachers in the song are doing the same thing that the neighbor's father did in the poem, reinforced and insured a lack of communication and ,therefore, ignorance in the next generation.
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