The poem 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost, explores physcial and mental boundaries. The persona outlines immense irony in the way the two men are brought together by a task that will ultimately keep them apart. He speaks in a questioning tone.
'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.'
The persona is most certainly against the idea of a wall and thinks it is useless. The persona thinks that human interaction and co-operation more vital.
'Before I build a wall I'd ask to know,
what I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was giving offence.
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