I saw this and burst out laughing. My daughter is, at this moment, writing an interpretive essay on Mending Wall for a class. She’s arguing that Frost is showing the benefit of the boundary vs. “Something there is in that doesn’t like a wall.” Love it.
The original book on boundaries. I like how well Frost conveys his own mischievous attitude and his neighbour’s more traditional, pragmatic stance. Also reminds me of living in Massachusetts—so many old stone walls everywhere! I think out west people must have used wood because I never see them here.
Good advice: “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,”
I saw this and burst out laughing. My daughter is, at this moment, writing an interpretive essay on Mending Wall for a class. She’s arguing that Frost is showing the benefit of the boundary vs. “Something there is in that doesn’t like a wall.” Love it.
The original book on boundaries. I like how well Frost conveys his own mischievous attitude and his neighbour’s more traditional, pragmatic stance. Also reminds me of living in Massachusetts—so many old stone walls everywhere! I think out west people must have used wood because I never see them here.
A classic!! So good!!