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Teaching Mending Wall

Mending Wall

Mending Wall is a metaphorical poem written in blank verse, published in 1914, by Robert Frost (1874–1963). There are five stressed syllables per line, with varying feet and occasional lines of iamb. The poem appeared as the first selection in Frost's second collection of poetry, North of Boston.

Robert Frost
Public Domain

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Do good fences make good neighbors?
STANDARDS:
RL.2 - Main Ideas, RL.6 - Point of View

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

3,4
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