Mending Wall:A Structural and Rhetorical Analysis

诗歌阅读过程是一个不断发现的过程。罗伯特·弗罗斯特的名诗“修墙”自发表以来被批评界用各种方法———政治的、社会的、精神分析学的、人类学的———进行过解读，因而得出的结论也各有不同。本文试图从微观的角度，用结构分析结合修辞分析的方法来发掘此诗的深层含义；不仅认为此诗的一个重要主题在于人类对于任何自然或人为的墙界的矛盾心态及对理解、和平与自由的想往，而且认为诗人匠心独运，寓意于诗歌的结构与词法之中，使一首诗歌具有无穷的含义。

Reading of poetry is a complicated process of discovery. “Mending Wall”, a well known poem by Robert Frost, has been constantly analyzed and yielded many “meanings”. With the help of recent critical studies, this paper is an attempt to disclose the implications and significance of the poem through a combined analysis of its structure and rhetoric. From this perspective this paper comes to a conclusion that the significance of the poem lies not only in Frosts as well as mans ambivalence for the wall, but also in mans endless pursuit of mutual understanding, peace and freedom.