Mending Wall
Mending Wall,blank-verse poem by Robert Frost, published in North of Boston (1914). Describing the time he and a neighboring farmer spent the day in replacing fallen stones on the wall which divides their land, the poet declares, “Something there is that doesn't love a wall.” and expresses his philosophy of tolerance, generosity, and brotherhood in the contrast between his neighbor's dogmatic “Good fences make good neighbours” and his own more considered
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out.