1205bp+I+Build+Walls

I Build Walls  Bianca Pineda The poem "I Build Walls" is about the author putting up barriers that hide what his true feelings are. Three lines I thought show this and are: "Walls that say I shall not yield Or reveal  Who I am or how I feel." These lines are important to the poem because they show that sometimes it's good to build "walls" to hide feelings.

Everyone needs to build walls at some point. At times, I build walls to keep my emotions to myself. This is because This is because it's easier to fake a smile than to explain what I'm feeling. The narrator believes that it's a good idea to have these walls sometimes, but not all the time because the author says it keeps you in a "prison" because you are trapped in your own emotions.

Dally from 'The Outsiders' built walls because instead of facing his his emotions, he became violent and mad. He's hiding these emotions from himself because he doesn't always want to face reality. Pain caused these walls to build. The more he suffered, the taller his wass were and the tougher it was to break them down. Only Johnny Cade was able to break down these walls. Although he could only do it for awhile, since Dallas kept building his walls back up.

In my opinion, sometimes, walls are exactly what we need sometimes. Walls are a way of telling yourself to be strong. They also tell you to move on. Walls built too often can build up to denial, though. Just like Dally; he never faced the truth. Because of this, sometimes he didn't know what was right or wrong. So, although walls are good sometimes, they should be used infrequently.