Poetry Analysis—“Mending Wall” by: Robert Frost
...omething” who makes the “frozen-ground-swell” (line 2) and “spills upper boulders” (line 3). It shows that nature does not love the wall. This is a strong statement that nature does not promote the way in which society separates itself from one another. It is evident that the wall, not only having a physical connotation of separation, also holds an emotional significance. The speaker of the poem challenges the need for the wall at all. He asks his neighbor why they even need to mend it. He raises the point that walls were only put in place to keep cattle in, and neither of them have any animals. The neighbor would rather not deal with these questions and just insists “Good fences make good neighbors” (lines 27 & 45). There is no real rhyme scheme, although there is some internal rhyme (there where, line 23)....