'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost

'Something there that doesn't love a wall love a wall,

That sends the ground-swell under it

And spills the upper boulder in the sun'

This is the opening line for 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost, it outlines the stress that the wall faces against mother nature. The fact that the wall doesn't last very long is one of the many arguments that the two neighbours have with each other. Another being the fact that vandals come and destroy the wall.

'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.'

Frost also talks about how, when the wall ia significantly damaged, ironically, call out to his neighbour that the wall must be fixed, even though it is not him who wants the wall, it is the neighbour

'I let my neighbour know beyond the hill

And on that day we meet to walk the line

And set the wall between us once again.'

Robert Frost talks of how he visions a worl without boundaries, and without the need for constant mending and repair but as his neighbour says:

'Good fences make good neighbours'