Walls and Borders Do "good fences really make good neighbors?"(666) Robert Frost's poem Mending Wall examines this as a local issue. It can also be interpreted as a global issue. Frost writes about two neighbor farmers and how a wall between their property effects the relationship between the two. Taking a more global look at the issue, the conflict in the former Yugoslavia relates to Mending Wall. Perhaps "good fences" give people a false sense of security. Robert Frost's poem, Mending Wall, is about two neighbors who meet every year in the spring to rebuild the wall, which borders their properties. The wall is toppled each year by hunters, weather, and time. The narrator of the poem doesn't see the point of rebuilding the wall year after year. He sees no problem with just letting the wall alone. He doesn't understand what he is "walling in or walling out." (667) He calls it, "an outdoor game, one on a side…it comes to little more." (667) His neighbor, however, wants to build the......

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Title: The Mending Wall
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