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MENDING WALL By Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows?

2|Page But here there are no cows. 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. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me~ Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

In this poem the dualism is make opposition between the condition of the speaker and the neighbor in this poem. There is gap from this wall. The wall makes gap even two can pass abreast. In first line from the word something there is that doesnt love a wall, that sends the upper boulders in the sun the speaker want to tell separated condition between the speaker and the neighbor. Desirability the speaker to breaking of the walls. Then in line five and six. The speaker tell the work hunters is another thing it means that the neighbour is work in hunting something that for fill the neighbor life. And hunters is identic with primitive people who still life with hunting something to eat. And then the word after the work hunters is another thing, it means that there is no in the speaker habit in his environment or habitually. Then its all is concerned our self. The speaker not know the neighbor activity and the other way. In line 24 he is all pine and i am apple orchard. The speaker use metaphor to the neighbor. The speaker claims he is apple orchard. Apple orchard metaphor to extraordinary, modern, exspensive and thoroughness. When we have apple orchard we imagine that apple is fruits which exspensive to sell. And if we have apple orchard we need to take care it. And we need tools when we will wipe off apple orchard. So if we will save and process the apple orchard, we also need skills and technology. The modern technology to process the ground. And just people who have prosperous life that can have modern technology to process the ground

3|Page well. So its produce good apple orchard. The speaker has been used modern technology, it means she is modern people and he has prosperous life. The reader use modern technology to stay alive, to work and the result of his work is abundant and make him to be rich people, so he has prosperous life. So the apple orchard is treat of modern situation and has opposite with the neighbor that they are pine. Characteristic of pines are tall, wild, illegal, and the fruits of pine can not to eat. Pine is live in forest. So like the life of forest there is no rules. There are wild and who have a power they dominance. Its show that the neighbor are primitive and still live with old tradition. There is no rules who has power he dominance. And primitive people live in proverty. Not yet reach prosperity and no modern technology. The speaker said that the neighbor is savage (primitive/old people). The speaker also say the neighbor like elves in line 36. Elves is symbol of primitive life. Elves is slave that can to ordered by employer. Elves identic with bad clothes and the people who lives in magic traditions. For instance goblin in harry potter movie, phisically goblin has bad clothes and very primitive people. He very obedient with his boss and all boss said. And it makes that the neighbor like people who live in primitive century. Different with the speaker like apple orchard with best technology for his live. Its opposite with the speaker the neighbour doesnt want the wall disappear. He feels good fences make good neighbors (line 27, line 30, line 45). The neighbor feel fine with there is wall between them and the speaker. They feel unsecured if the wall disappear.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there

4|Page Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

The dualism in poem The Road Not Taken is similarity. Similarity means the similar between 2 thing that have strained situation and each have attractive power. In this poem The Road Not Taken explain the two roads that with differences characteristic. There are two roads have different characteristic and similarity too. The similarity of these roads is when in the morning, both roads are same, not yet through by people, in stanza 3, lines 1 & 2, And both that morning equally lay, In leaves no step had trodden black. Although different, but both roads has similarity, only in the morning both roads still fresh and quite situation, no footstep through the roads because people not yet walk in these roads (trodden black). It means that when the speaker will choose ways of life and there are two choises ways of life that should be choosen by the speaker. Both choises not yet passed by people and each of these ways has the same opportunity and has the same challenge. The differences of those roads are : The characteristic of first road was grassy, (in stanza 2, line 3). The grassy road is easy road to through because there is no underbrush but there is grass was grow on the road so its indicate that this road is travelled by many people. people want to use that road as their street to go because this road is easy and comfort. The road means the ways of life and many people choose this way of life that have through by many people in the world. Many people think that this way of life is easy to do, They think like that because they are not yet feel it and through it because they just see that most of people take this way of life and dont have any problem with their life. Actually, this way also has diffculty and all of ways of life

5|Page has joy and sorrow, but the speaker doesnt choose this way of life (first road). They just follow what people choose generally. They dont choose their own way. The characteristic of second road was less traveled by people, (in stanza 4, line 3). The second road is traveled by people but less traveler. Then the speaker decide to choose this road. The road that usually less traveler is a road that difficult to through, there is underbrush that make the road is difficult. It means that the speaker choose this way of life that seldom choosen by people. Many barriers in this way of life, so people who choose this way must struggle to do this life to get succesfull career, thats why this way of life is choosen by a few people because sometimes some people doesnt want to struggle to raise it, they want instant way. It showed in stanza 4, line 1, I shall be telling this with a sigh. Sigh is showing a sense, sense of life, the speaker feel doubt choose this way. But the speaker constant to choose this way. Because this way id differences with another way. And the speaker want make different with another people. The speaker choose his own life. So its indicate that the speaker is arogances people. Then in first stanza in line 1, two roads diverged in a yellow wood its make the situation in this poem are spring and bright. When spring the leaves of trees is yellow and flowers are blossom. And the yellow wood is in all roads. The first and second roads. And each have differences and similarity.

FIRE AND ICE By Robert frost

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

6|Page Dualism in the poem "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost, the world will be destroyed and ended with a fire and ice, where the fire mean desire and ice mean hate. The speaker believes that the world will end in fire. Fire and Ice are walking succession and cause the same thing, destruction. The enmity in fire and ice are the same, make situation is not comfort and the world will end caused fire (desire) and ice (hate). The characteristics of fire are hot, spread, physical distruction and the destruction is appear and it can see with eyes. There are victims caused the destruction of fire. Fire is expressed as desire, it means anger, emotion that impact destruction. When people have an action that make a change, from just silent action can make chaotic around them. That action for example the people angry and throw down forcefully the thing near him. Dualism in fire can destroy world and make opposition. The dualism in ice is not destroy the world and there is no make opposition.The characteristics of ice is cold, there is no movement. Ice is expressed as hate, hate and ice can make destructions inside of them, although there is no movement and there is an energy to destroy in silent, no change in physical, doesnt appear and it cant see with eyes. In a people life, there are also suspicious each other, comming of treason from best friend or trusted people, reverenge, slander and spy. Hate is inside conflict of human.