Use a Formal Writing Style Do not use

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Use a Formal Writing Style • Do not use first-person pronouns. (“I, ” “me,

Use a Formal Writing Style • Do not use first-person pronouns. (“I, ” “me, ” etc. ) • Avoid addressing readers as “you. ” • Avoid the use of contractions. (“isn’t, ” “won’t, ” etc. ) • Avoid informal wording and slang expressions.

Refer to the Speaker, not the Poet • The speaker says, “We keep the

Refer to the Speaker, not the Poet • The speaker says, “We keep the wall between us as we go” (Frost 15).

Refer to the Speaker, not the Poet But when a Boy and Barefoot I

Refer to the Speaker, not the Poet But when a Boy and Barefoot I more than once at Noon Have passed I thought a Whip Lash Unbraiding in the Sun from Emily Dickinson’s “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”

Integrate Quotations A quotation not integrated The speaker reveals that he initiates the mending

Integrate Quotations A quotation not integrated The speaker reveals that he initiates the mending of the wall each year. “I let my neighbor know beyond the hill” (Frost 12). A quotation integrated The speaker reveals that he initiates the mending of the wall each year when he says, “I let my neighbor know beyond the hill” (Frost 12).

Quotations Should Make Sense The speaker sees his neighbor “In each hand, like an

Quotations Should Make Sense The speaker sees his neighbor “In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed” (Frost 39). The speaker sees his neighbor as “an old-stone savage armed” (Frost 39). The speaker sees his neighbor “Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top / In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed” (Frost 38 -39).

Use a Slash / for Line Breaks The speaker sees his neighbor “Bringing a

Use a Slash / for Line Breaks The speaker sees his neighbor “Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top / In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed” (Frost 38 -39). The speaker explains to his neighbor that their trees will remain separated even without a wall: “My apple trees will never get across / And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him” (Frost 24 -25).

Include Interpretation When the speaker says that his neighbor “moves in darkness as it

Include Interpretation When the speaker says that his neighbor “moves in darkness as it seems to me” and “will not go behind his father’s saying, ” the speaker suggests that his neighbor blindly follows tradition (Frost 40, 42). The speaker’s criticism of the wall seems to be contradicted by how the speaker repairs the wall by himself when hunters damage it: “I have come after them and made repair / Where they have left not one stone on a stone, ” the speaker says (Frost 6 -7).