T.S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" was influenced by the Great Depression, which Eliot depicts through images of economic hardship like a woman soliciting men in torn clothes, a cat eating rancid butter, and factories shutting down. Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" was influenced by World War I and depicts neighbors rebuilding a wall between their properties as an analogy for nations rebuilding treaties and borders after the war, though one neighbor questions the purpose of maintaining the dividing wall.