land countryside is full of rolling hills and open pastures so it makes perfect sense that Frost was not a great supporter of closed in fences because it would be more like living in the city than the countryside.There where it is we do not need a wall:He is all pine and I am all apple orchards.My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. (23-26)In this passage he is once again trying to ask the question why, because there is no real need for the wall between them, yet every spring they come together to rebuild the wall that divides them. The 1st person is willing to help his neighbor rebuild the wall but he is constantly asking the question why are we doing this Before I build a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling end or walling out,And to whom I was giving offence. (32-34)In this passage, the 1st person is trying to reason with his neighbor and asks one last time what are we doing and why are we doing it. I chose the three passages from the poem because I think that they are the best example to help prove my point that the 1st person does not expect that “Good fences make good neighbors.”Frost uses irony to hide his moral message within the poetry. This forces the readers to search it out for themselves and draw our own conclusion to the poem’s hidden message of social boundaries. The following are examples that I think are ironic within the poem. The wall as I discussed earlier serves no real purpose, but yet they rebuild it every spring.And own a day we meet to walk the lineAnd set the wall between us once again.We keep the wall between us as we go. (13-16)I think that this passage is ironic because even though they are neighbors and they work together each spring to rebuild this wall, Frost uses “ wall between us” twice within these three lines of poetry. I think that this helps to prove that the two men are not friends but simply neighbors who live side ...
