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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of the similarities between Frost's "Mending Wall" and Lennon/McCartney's "Eleanor Rigby". Similarities along thematic, narrative, and stylistic dimensions are considered. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the poetry inherent in the lyrics penned by the two primary songwriters for the legendary Beatles can be more readily exposed by comparing it with a more canonically accepted example
of poetry, such as Robert Frost. Such a comparison is possible because the poets utilize similar techniques and devices to convey similar themes about the human condition of loneliness. In
particular, this paper will provide a comparison between Frosts poem, "Mending Wall" and Lennon and McCartneys "Eleanor Rigby". This paragraph helps the student begin the comparison by providing a
summary of Frosts poem. Frosts "Mending Wall" begins with rather iconic imagery, that of a stark stone wall running through a field, but the poet immediately undermines this imagery by
suggesting its impermanence, expressing his belief that there exists some cosmic force that "doesnt love a wall" and endlessly seeks its destruction through events such as ground freezes and hunters
who displace the stones in the wall in search of foxes (Frost 2007). This is evidenced by the fact that Frosts narrator and his neighbor often find the stones of
the wall dislodged on their walks together, which take place with each person on one side of the wall, engaging in insular imaginary games the whole way. The narrator suggests
that the two of them stop rebuilding the wall and question for once what they are "walling out", but the neighbor wont listen, content to continue reconstructing the wall on
the basis of a maxim his father gave him: "good fences make good neighbors" (Frost 2007). Lennon and McCartneys "Eleanor Rigby" tells a similar story about human loneliness. The
first stanza of the poem describes a woman by the name of Eleanor Rigby who cleans up after weddings and endless awaits her own satisfaction, which never seems to arrive
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