Week 10 Robert Frost Mending Wall

As I read this poem I was able to follow along with the story of two neighbors, but at the same time the poem let us know how the speaker truly felt about the situation. He does not understand why there has to be a divider between entering the life of his neighbor. He brings up the point that neither neighbor had livestock and therefore there is no real need for a separation. Even though he feels this way he still helps put up the wall every year. I feel like he desires the relationship and will do anything to expand a relationship with his neighbor, even if it is fixing the separation. The neighbor repeatedly say "good neighbors make good fences" and I would have to disagree. With that fence you are automatically saying that you do not want to expand beyond the fence for a relationship. Fences do serve a purpose when there is livestock, but other than that they should be down. I really enjoyed how Frost really showed the speakers emotion throughout this poem.