ity reveal awealth of profundity. The "something there is that doesn't love a wall" destroys the structurewith "frozen-ground-swell" could be construed as Nature defying the works human hands. However, it probable that which does not "love a wall" is not simple nature, but Human Nature. The "frozen-ground-swell" is the cold heart that permeates the building of such a wall, and theeventual warming of the heart "spills the upper boulders in the sun". For Frost, a man living ina time when the industrial revolution and all the advances of the new century, the twentieth-century, were making our fenced-in walls archaic structures in an emerging homogeneooussociety. In fact, the gaps in the wall were big enough that "...two could pass abreast." This isan important idea. The holes in the wall were not for one, but for two. A fence has two sides,two identities, two purposes. In the gaping holes of the wall, both that which is restricted andthat which restricts, are allowed simultaneous freedom of movement. This is an exemplary ideafor a time when many restraints in America, socially and physically, were being defied. Further in the poem, the speaker tells of the mending of the wall with, "And on a day wemeet to walk the line/And set the wall between us once again/We keep the wall between us aswe go/To each the boulders that have fallen to each." The idea that this wall is in a state ofdisrepair is an indication that the structure itself, the wall, is of little consequence. If any realimportance were given to the stones that make the wall, it would have been unlikely that thespeaker or the neighbor would have allowed it to become dilapidated. When the neighbors"meet to walk the line" it is with the intention of setting the wall "between us once again". Thetone suggests that it is a metaphorical wall that the narrator and the neighbor are setting. Eachremains on his own side, which speaks quietly of some sense of fear and selfish...
