A New England Tradition: Robert Frost’s “mending Wall”

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A New England Tradition: Robert Frost’s “mending Wall”

...anthologized poems. The poet himself insists that many of the far-reaching interpretations of the poem are incorrect, and that it doesn’t mean anything more than it seems to say. Thus, it’s not to be interpreted as a clash between ideas, the revolt of the young against the old, etc. Assuming the man himself knows why he wrote it, what is a reasonable explication?
The poem is a contradiction in terms, since two of its most famous lines are diametrically opposed to one another. The first is the very first line, Something there is that doesn’t love a wall (Frost). And the other is Good fences make good neighbors (Frost). The first suggests that walls should be torn town, the second that they should be erected and kept in good repair. Is there a way to accomplish both? Yes, if we consider the nature of the New England landscape.
The narrator and his neighbor are both out walking their fences after a long, hard winter; they...

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