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=//Mending Wall// By: Robert Frost= pg. 1002

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me~ Not of woods only and the shade of trees.He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

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The "Mending Wall" is a poem that tells a story about two neighbors. Every spring they meet at the stone wall that seprates thier land. They replace the fallen stones made by the hunters over the winter. Yet, every spring the narrator wonders why they mend the wall. "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know/what I was walling in or walling out,/And to whom I was like to give offense." The narrator is concered about what relationship or friendship he might keep out if he continues to build this wall every spring. His neighbor, however, is not concered about rebuilding the wall. He says every spring "Good fences make good neighbors". It sounds like he wants to tay away from people and not be envoled. The narrator describes him a pine tree and himself as an apple orchard. This poem gives the view and the stroy that a person who wants to know why a wall is good and why he should continue to build it. (Rachael's Paragraph)

This poem "Mending Wall" to me means thats this guy is trying to separate things from eachother that should be separated. He is separating things from eachother for good reasons. For example he is separating good from evil. Keeping good from eveil apart is good for everyone because it can cause troubles so he is preventing troubles from happening. When the writer says "good fences make good neighbors," I think he is saying its like a wall that is separating things and fences do not bring trouble. The writer is not actually building a wall. In his mind he is building a wall to block the good and the evil. He does this for a good reason so no troubles comes his way. Its hard to understand this writer and what he is saying. (Paige's Paragraph)