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.

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.

In Robert Frost‘s “Mending Wall,” however, the phrase reads ironically; if you study the poem, good fences do not, in fact, make good neighbors. Though the phrase owes its origins not to ...

p><p>But it is Mr. Brown’s final paragraph that is most enlightening. He cites the Robert Frost poem “Mending Wall.” Mr. Brown writes that the poem demonstrates how a wall that separates us ...

Nevertheless, Frost primarily wrote his poems for the enjoyment of his public readership, and it is this reading pleasure above all that I would like to share in my column this semester. But “Mending ...

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-ground-swell under it, And spills the ...

He told Frost, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Frost later immortalized those words in his poem, “Mending Wall,” while countering them with his own opposing views on barriers.

The project is named after Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” which tells the story of two farmers who come together each year to repair a shared fence. One finds the fence necessary ...