Consider both the comedic and tragic aspects (and the potential relation between the two) in Frost’s poem “Mending Wall.”

In “Mending Wall,” the speaker and the neighbor have to get together once again during the spring in order to repair their broken wall. The speaker talks about the different ways that the wall gets ruined and how they have to be fixed. Though, when the speaker examines the circumstances around the wall he realizes there is no point in having it if the speaker and the neighbor have different trees on their properties. And so this adds a comedic aspect to the poem in that they have for years fixed a wall which is not needed. This comedic aspect to the poem could be a way for Frost to liven up the tragic aspect that the poem also has. The tragic aspect being that the speaker realizes that he will never get through to the neighbor in understanding that a wall is not needed.