<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Mending Wall </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Mending Wall </Td> </Tr> <P> "Mending Wall" is a poem by the twentieth century American poet Robert Frost (1874--1963). It opens Frost's second collection of poetry, North of Boston, published in 1914 by David Nutt, and it has become "one of the most anthologized and analyzed poems in modern literature". </P> <P> Like many of the poems in North of Boston, "Mending Wall" narrates a story drawn from rural New England . The narrator, a New England farmer, contacts his neighbor in the spring to rebuild the stone wall between their two farms . As the men work, the narrator questions the purpose of a wall "where it is we do not need the wall" (23). He notes twice in the poem that "something there is that doesn't love a wall" (1, 35), but his neighbor replies twice with the proverb, "Good fences make good neighbors" (27, 45). </P>

Good neighbors make good fences by robert frost