Injustices based on racial discrimination and gender bias in a democratic country sounds weird and hard-to-believe. However, what history has witnessed proves what nobody wants to hear or believe. This analytical research paper addresses grave issues concerning racial discrimination and gender bias pertaining to black vs. white and the related causes for the World War II as well as the prejudices that led to the Civil Rights Movement. Thus, the paper revolves around the popular poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, addressing the issue of the racial conflict between blacks and whites in America. Poems by Langston Hughes will also be incorporated in the paper to better explain the black experiences before the WWII and Civil Rights Movement. The Works Cited appends seven sources in MLA format.
Mending Walls
Among many renowned literary figures that understood the cost that the world is paying for racial prejudices and the rebellious nature that took birth from the roots of racial injustices and discriminations considering the experiences of all the minorities especially the black living in the United States, Robert Lee Frost, one of the America's top poets, trough his poetry made fruitful attempts in spreading the much-needed awareness among the masses regarding the catastrophes connected to black white discrepancies. Born in San Francisco in 1874, Frost wrote, "a few poems it will be hard to get rid of" (Robert Frost). Among those few but unforgettable poems, "Mending Walls" was the first poem out of the sixteen noteworthy poetic pieces that was published in 1914 in Frost's first book, North of Boston (Frost: Five Poems). Composing this narrative and spectacular monologue, Frost has considerably contributed audaciously as well as skillfully to the burning issue of racial disparity among the blacks and the whites. He believes in "saying one thing in terms of another" (Frost: Essay Questions), a quality that is highly evident throughout the Mending Wall, which he has used to address the racial inequality in America regarding blacks and whites.
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