Poem final exam

you can write one out of three of these choices, it can be on google docs also!! 1. Are there any specific details in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” ( page 764 in the text) which would suggest that the poem is about more than just repairing a stone wall/fence? For instance, why — in a poem which appears on the surface to be about the activity of repairing a boundary wall — would the speaker mention anything about “elves,” or repeat his neighbor’s statement that “good fences make good neighbors,” or characterize his neighbor as a pine tree and himself as an apple orchard? ******Just a little background information: the wall that Frost refers to in his title, the kind which criss-crosses the New England landscape, is used, as mentioned above, as a boundary marker, mostly between farms (to get a better idea of what this kind of wall looks like you might want to google “stone walls in New England”). Owing to seasonal variations in temperature (specifically, the expansion of things in summer heat and contraction of things in winter cold), these walls often shift, causing the stones and boulders that they’re built of to fall onto the ground. As a result, every spring, farmers/property owners find themselves engaged in the job of repairing their mutual walls. 2. W. H. Auden’s “Musee Des Beaux Arts” (page 696): In a well-developed essay explain how Auden’s poem uses allusions to different art forms in order to explore the human condition (remember that allusions are references to people and events in history, mythology, religion, art and other cultural artificats. One such allusion in Auden’s poem is contained in the line “In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance:” [because Icarus is a painting by an artists named Peter Brueghel]). 3. Adrienne Rich’s “Living in Sin” (page 538): A traditional reading of this poem is that it deals with the conflict between fantasy and reality. What is it about Rich’s poem that would make readers interpret it in this way? (Or, to put it slightly differently, what specific details in the poem would lead readers to this conclusion [the conclusion that the poem is about the aforementioned conflict])?