MENDING WALL
MENDING WALL - Robert Frost Activity - I (Paragraph writing) Elaborate the idea in the following line in a paragraph: “Good fences make good neighbours.” Good fences make good neighbours means it is good to have some limits between neighbours so that their relations will remain healthy at all times. If there is unlimited freedom between neighbours, trouble will soon start. Suppose you grow goats in your house. Your neighbour has a vegetable garden. If there is no fence your goats will go and eat up the vegetables of your neighbour. Will he like it? Suppose your neighbour’s children come and open your fridge and eat up all the good food you have kept there. Will you like it? So there must be some boundaries between-neighbours and only then there will be good relations. Activity - II ( Appreciation) The central idea of the poem: The central idea of the poem is that nature does not like separation and that is why it ten