Because it was about me and an alien hanging out.
The primary theme in Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" is the self-imposed barriers humans make to separate each other and prevent interaction. The poem suggests that the wall is unnatural and unhealthy for them, yet the neighbors meet every year for maintenance. The wall is a metaphor for barriers we create and maintain on the basis of tradition.
Heroic epic often depict exactly this - they have long complex stories that are also very culturally relevant to the culture out of which the hero comes from. They were often created in order to be sung and they also involve supernatural beings etc. which the hero has to overcome and save his people.
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The average reader will spend 1 hours and 36 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute).
