Robert Frost: Poems
What does this wall represent to the speaker, and what does he do with that knowledge?
Why does he tell us, “and I wonder/If I could put a notion in his head” (28-29), and later, “and I’d rather/He said it for himself?” (37-38) Be sure to consider the imagery Frost gives us that shows the spatial relationships of the men to each other as they work, the differences in the land between the two neighbors, and the final description the speaker gives of his neighbor as the man says, “Good fences make good neighbors” (45).