Good Fences In Robert Frost's The Mending Wall

Everyone has that one neighbor, that one single neighbor in their life that is just unbearable. The neighbor is rude and loud and their tree is always dropping gross leeves into the newly cleaned pool. How frustrating! How does one keep those kinds of neighbor relationships from happening? How about a fence? In the poem “The Mending Wall” by the infamous Robert Frost brings out the use of a wall between neighbor. In this story, a wall has to be mended every spring by the narrator and his neighbor and one thing said the story is “Good Fences make good neighbors”. Now, this saying can be take sarcastic or as fact. The discussion of the actually of the quote is brought up in neighborhoods and a bigger separation in nations. Although many people don’t appreciate social separation, Good fences do make good neighbors because they gives some privacy, they gives the neighbors something in common and they prevent conflict and rivalries.

No one wants someone in their business, and no one wants to see their neighbor all the time. The narrator in The poem “The Mending Wall” said “If i could put a notion in his head: why do they make good neighbors?”(879) This bring out that he had a question for his neighbor, however with the wall in separation and his neighbor working, he decided not to bother him and let him be. With this, the neighbor probably go a lot more done with his time without his neighbor annoying him. A news article brings out an important use for walls and fences saying “Fences decorate or blight the land...They protect, but they also separate. Fences define and secure ‘ours,’ but they isolate ‘us.’”(Davis 243) In this, Fences are used for privacy for people to live their life without anyone interfering. It protects people from unnecessary of observation. This clearly brings out that having some privacy in the neighbor to neighbor relationship is