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Summary Walls are nothing but barriers, which represent differentiation and division. This is the main matter of Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall". A stone wall separates the speaker's property from his neighbor's. In spring, the two meet to renovate the wall. The speaker sees no reason for the wall to be constructed, as there are no cows to destroy each other's possessions (and hence, in the process damage their relationship). There are only apple and pine trees, which of course cannot eat each other. He does not believe in building up walls to share a good relationship, while on the contrary, the neighbor resorts to an old cliché: "Good fences make good neighbors", when in reality, fences create disharmony among people. The speaker tries to convince his neighbor to look beyond the old-fashioned and irrational traditions handed down by his ancestors. But, his neighbor remains unaffected and simply...

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