Frost’s Negotiations with Khrushchev
Journal: transcript Verlag eBooks
Year: 2013

The collective Cold War imagination did not take long to single out Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"-his old poem of 1914-as best expressing postwar diplomatic strife. 1 Not considered nearly as important in earlier decades, the poem suddenly became, as Steven Axelrod has argued, a "necessary" poem without which no postwar anthology of American poetry seemed conceivable.Popularly read as an eloquent expression of several Cold War sentiments such as the desire to contain communism or the yearning to