Stone wall at Frost's farm in Derry, New Hampshire, which he describes in \
\Mending Wall\poem written in blank verse, published in 1914, by Robert Frost (1874–1963). The poem appeared as the first selection in Frost's second collection of poetry, North of Boston. It is set in the countryside and is about one man questioning why he and his neighbor must rebuild the stone wall dividing their farms each spring. It is perhaps best known for its line spoken by the neighbor: \fences make good neighbors.\Oxford Dictionary of Quotations as a mid 17th century proverb, which was given a boost in the American consciousness due to its prominence in the poem.
The opening lines evoke the coy posture of the shrewd imaginative man who understands the words of the farmer in 'The Mountain\\the fun's in how you say a thing,\does not take more than one reading of the poem to understand that the speaker is not a country primitive who is easily spooked by the normal processes of nature. He knows very well what it is \doesn't love a wall\(frost, of course). His fun lies in not naming it. And in not naming the scientific truth he is able to manipulate intransigent fact into the world of the mind where all things are pliable. The artful vagueness of the phrase \there is\is enchanting and magical, suggesting even the bushed tones of reverence before mystery in nature. And the speaker (who is not at all reverent toward nature) consciously works at deepening that sense of mystery: The play of the mature, imaginative man is grounded in ironic awareness--and must be. Even as he excludes verifiable realities from his fictive world the
unmistakable tone of scorn for the hunters comes seeping through. He may step into a fictive world but not before glancing back briefly at the