Mending wall - Textual Questions

Think And Write
1. Why does the poet say that there is something that doesn’t love, a wall?
         The poet says that there is something that does not love the wall because nobody sees or hears anybody breaking the wall. But every spring season, the poet finds the wall is broken. So it is obvious that there is something that does not love a wall and wants to see it broken. It is this ‘something’ that makes the ground under the wall swell causing the stones of the wall to fall down on to either side.

2. Why does the poet meet his neighbour beyond the hill at spring?
       The poet meets his neighbour beyond the hill at spring so that they can fix one day and walk along the wall to mend it by picking up the fallen stones and fixing them back.

3. How does the poet and his neighbour mend the gaps in the wall?
       The poet and his neighbour mend the gaps in the wall by walking along the wall on either side and picking up the fallen stones and placing them back on the wall in an effort to mend it.

4. Why does the poet argue that there is no need of a wall in between his estate and that of his neighbour?
        The poet argues that there is no need of a wall in between his estate and that of his neighbour because his area is covered with pine trees and the poet’s area is full of apple trees. The poet’s apple trees will never go to his area to eat the cones of his pines.

5. How does the neighbour justify the need for waits or fences?
        The neighbour justifies the need forwalls offences by saying that good fences make good neighbours.

6. Why does the poet consider the spring season mischievous?
      The poet considers the spring season mischievous because it is in that season gaps are found in the walls. He thinks that Spring Season makes the frozen ground under the wall expand. Because of this expansion, the wall gets cracks, making the upper stones of the wall fall down on to the sides.

7.What are the contrasting views presented in the poem?
        The poet has one view but his neighbour has a different view. The poet thinks there is no need for a fence orwall between neighbours, especially when the author’s area has apple trees and the neighbour’s area has pine trees. There is no way that the apple trees will trespass into the neighbours estate and eat the cones of the pines. But the neighbour thinks that good fences make good neighbours.

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