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Originally Posted by M/V_Bear_II
Actually, Frost's point is that fences do not make good neighbors. Repairing a stone wall between their properties gives him an annual chance to catch up with his neighbor, but therefore it is the "gaps" in the wall that make good neighbors.
He mocks his neighbor for steadfastly repeating his father's adage.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilre...t-mending.html
No thoughts on Rt. 109, as it has been several years since I have been up on that side of the lake. |
True enough MV Bear II. I however prefer to listen to Robert Frost's poems. Too many great poems are lost to the whole, since folks read rather than listen to them. Try this site, and listen to the words of a wonderful man.
http://robertfrostoutloud.com/MendingWall.html