This teacher lesson activity will guide your students through Robert Frost's poem "The Mending Wall," helping them to develop an understanding of the poem’s message and how it is conveyed through word choice. This activity includes a short answer response question about how the author's word choice conveys the poem's theme, as well as a grading rubric and explanations of pertinent literary concepts such as imagery, allusion, metaphor, and personification with examples from the poem. Your student