inspired Frost after building a wall to separate their properties, and is alluded to twice in the poem when the older man says, Good fences make good neighbors. Conflicts In this poem, there contained three main conflicts. Change vs. Tradition, nature vs. the wall, and the individual vs. individual. In the poem the young man is constantly wondering what is so important about why, Good fences make good neighbors, and the youth is constantly pondering questions to ask the man, but never really ask them because he knows that tradition will prevail. Individual vs. individual plays in the same kind of role as the other because it is again the youth questioning the old mans ways. The first conflict in the poem is given in the first line, Something there that doesnt like the wall, and that something is nature and it wants the wall down. Style The poem is written in first person narrative, and with a series of arguments (refer to Tone). The poem is written with 45 lines and separated into two parts, with line twenty-three represents that wall that is discussed in the poem. In the first part of the poem (lines 1-22), the youth tells the story from his point of view, which is an internal monologue. He uses the world we five times, and the word us twice to show both are working on the wall and being connected to each other; the most they have been throughout the year. The middle line of the poem is, There where it is we do not need the wall, which represents the dividing point of the poem, a barrier of sorts. But in lines 24-45, there is frustration in the youths tone as the wall is taking its original shape back again, and he begins to isolate himself more from the old man when he uses the words he seven times and him or his once. Frustration led to sarcasm in the youths arguments, but in the end the poem ended in wisdom. It started out with a silly question about why there was a need for a wall, but ended with an enlightened remark by the old ma...
