Angela & Uncle Jerry reference Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall' alongside 'Birches' as examples of blank verse when discussing the iambic patterns in All Too Well.
Uncle Jerry cites Mending Wall as further evidence of Frost's darker sensibility, 'read Mending Wall and it turns rural personages into old stone savages armed.' This supports his argument that the Frost reference in the song should not be read as simply hopeful.
“Walls of insincerity”
Angela & Uncle Jerry note that the metaphor 'walls of insincerity' evokes Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall,' which explores how neighbors build walls between themselves. Taylor's metaphorical walls are social barriers people erect to protect themselves, paralleling Frost's meditation on the human tendency to build walls despite nature's wish to tear them down.