<p> How does Robert Frost show the importance of man’s relationship with the countryside in Mending Wall and one other poem?</p><p>In “Mending Wall” Frost shows the importance of man’s relationship with the countryside through the attitudes and values that he expresses. </p><p>How does the poet present the significance of nature in ‘The Oven Bird’ and one other poem?</p><p>The poet Robert Frost presents nature as significant in The Oven Bird through his use of aspects of the natural world to express a number of attitudes and values.</p><p>How does Frost present the importance of the relationship between town and country in ‘Out Out’ and one other poem?</p><p>Frost shows the relationship between town and country to be important in ‘Out Out’ through the way he expresses a number of attitudes and values. How does Robert Frost show the importance of man’s relationship with the countryside in Mending Wall and one other poem?</p><p>In “Mending Wall” Frost shows the importance of man’s relationship with the countryside through the attitudes and values that he expresses. The main attitude expressed by the narrator of the poem is that perhaps walls do not need mending. It is important to note however that the actual stone wall in the poem appears to represent those metaphorical barriers which complicate human relationships. Just as natural forces in the countryside (the weather, land slippage- Frost never really specifies) gradually bring down stone walls – Frost’s narrator seems to be suggesting that man could do worse than follow nature’s example and bring down of those barriers that are unnecessary in human interaction – again he doesn’t specify but there are any number of prejudices to pick from.</p><p>We might first begin to suspect that the wall is a metaphorical one when we read he line “And set the wall between us once again”. On a literal level this simply means resurrecting the stone wall but there are also connotations of a communication breakdown on the level of the relationship between the narrator and his neighbour or indeed between any human or group of humans and another. This is because the word ‘neighbour’ itself (used by Frost several times in the poem) has especially wide connotations that suggest a metaphorical reading of the poem is appropriate, particularly if you think of it in the sense of the Biblical suggestion to ‘love they neighbour’. Here the word obviously means ‘fellow human beings’ as opposed to just ‘the person who lives next to you’. </p><p>Later Frost asks of walls, “Why do they make good neighbours?” – on a metaphorical level he’s questioning their purpose and at the same time his use of a question sentence involves the reader directly in the issue being discussed by inviting the reader to give an answer…</p>