![]() ![]() ![]() The poem opens with the statement, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” and Frost’s readers are left to speculate for the remainder of the poem precisely what that something is. He makes boundaries and he breaks boundaries. The secret of what it means I keep.” Providing a bit of a hint, he also once explained that the poem contrasted two types of people: “I’ve got a man there he’s both a wall builder and a wall toppler. On a visit to Moscow in 1962, nearly 50 years after the poem’s first publication, Frost said, “People are frequently misunderstanding or misinterpreting it. Much anthologized, the poem has almost come to symbolize Frost, for good or ill. ![]() The opening poem of Frost’s hailed second collection, North of Boston, “ Mending Wall” is one of his most popular and celebrated poems. He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ ![]()
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