Wall Robert Frost Case

This poem begins with the line"Something there is that doesn't like a wall." This line indicates a problem that may be caused by something in people or a mysterious force in the world. The crucial motif of this poem is a stone wall. Natural forces are bringing a wall to decay and the wall always needs to be fixed. The author of the poem indicates that they are two neighbours whose land is separated by a wall. In the spring they both walk along their sides of the wall, fixing the gaps caused by nature. One of the neighbours suggests that there is no reason for having the wall between them because they have no cows and their apple and pine trees are not likely to encroach on their private lands, but his neighbour is set against it, constantly repeating an old proverb "Good fences make good neighbors. "

The beginning of the poem encourages the reader to think about walls as something problematic. The wall is described in a negative way, but we do not know what causes the problem because 'something' is such an unspecific word. The author first implies that nature has a special force to destroy the walls. In particular, frozen nature causes the gaps that appear in the spring. There is another source of destruction mentioned in the fifth line, the hunters who destroy the walls when they are trying to catch the rabbit who is hiding there. The speaker also claims that no one has ever seen the process of making the gaps, but yet they appear and nature reveals them in the spring.

The speaker is meeting his neighbour who lives behind the hill and it is obvious that they meet each other regularly to fix the wall. Our speaker is describing the act as hard work because the boulders do not fit into the gaps.. "We have to use a spell to make them balance", suggests that it is almost impossible to fill the gaps. The paradox of this situation is that they have to rebuild the wall again and again every year. Suddenly, the speaker says that there is no reason for having the wall. He is trying to convince the neighbour using an interesting argument that his "apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pine." But the neighbour just states the proverb, "Good fences make good neighbors". The speaker feels like he could change neighbour's opinion and tells him that if he is ever to build a wall, he will first think about the reason. and in this way he implies that his neighbour was the one who decided to build up the wall. However, the neighbour remains unconvinced. The speaker envisages his neighbour standing nearby holding a stone in his hand. His description indicates that he is a person with dark mentality who will never give up his beliefs. At the end we realise that the neighbour inherited this opinion from his father and can only repeat "Good fences make good neighbors".