Mending Wall

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seems that Frost enjoys working with his neighbor separately when he says “Oh, just another kind of outdoor game, one on a side”. However Frost also gives us a feeling that there is other meaning to it. A game very often symbolizes a competition, or a fight. We can see it in Frost expression that he doesn’t want to compete with his neighbor. He was somewhat being sarcastic. He wants to work along with his neighbor, and maybe even get to know more about him. This could be an implication that Frost dislikes a wall between him and his neighbor.
While they are fixing the wall, Frost suggests his neighbor that part of their land doesn’t really need a wall between them. Frost has all apple trees on his land, and his neighbor has all pine. There is an obvious distinction between two lands, why do they need a wall? Frost then
reminds his neighbor “My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.”. From this point, we can see that Frost is trying ...

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