Smith to delve into this classic poem. Do good fences really make good neighbors? Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” asks surprising questions about the role of walls in civil society.

Here's former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Here's a shrewd and mysterious poem about boundaries: "Mending Wall," by Robert Frost. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen ...

During the visit, he read at a Moscow library. The poem he chose was “Mending Wall,” which is ostensibly about two New Englanders setting out to repair the stone barrier between their farms.