How does Robert Frost's use of a first-person speaker in "Mending Wall" help develop the poem's central idea? Since readers can understand the speaker's inner thoughts and feelings, Frost can show how much the speaker resents his neighbor for wrecking their shared wall. Since readers know the speaker's emotions, Frost can stress the idea that those who choose to live in isolated areas often develop strange beliefs and customs. The fact that readers must guess at what the neighbor wants to do with the wall helps reinforce the idea that both men think rebuilding the wall is pointless. The fact that readers are only provided with the speaker's feelings and perspective helps to stress the idea that he and his neighbor do not see things the same way.

The use of a first-person speaker in "Mending Wall" helps develop the poem's central idea because:

D. The fact that readers are only provided with the speaker's feelings and perspective helps to stress the idea that he and his neighbor do not see things the same way.

Explanation:

In "Mending Wall", the speaker and his neighbor meet up to repair a wall that has been torn down. The speaker reveals that his neighbor likes the wall, that he thinks "[g]ood fences make good neighbors." However, the speaker does not agree with that saying. He spends a great deal of the poem reflecting on why having a wall is important. What difference will it make? What does it keep out and what does it keep in? However, he never asks his neighbor what he means, why that saying is taken as a universal truth by him. All we know are the speaker's thoughts and feelings. All we know is that he disagrees with his neighbor's perspective . Yet, ironically, he complies and rebuilds the wall with the other.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

wheres the options? i dont think this can be solved with out the options