Response To Mending Wall

Poem Response to Robert Frost’s Mending Wall, 1914 The starting and ending lines of the poem make up a Dialectical Reversal of Otherness as they are two ambiguous ideas lying at the heart of Robert Frost’s Mending Wall. In the opening line, the narrator says “Something there is that doesn't love a wall” implying that the poem in not celebrating walls. The narrator does not specify who or what is this ‘something’ but, he metaphorically suggests it as being an act of nature with phrases like “frozen-ground-swell under it” and “spills the upper boulder in the sun”. However, the narrator’s attitude towards the wall is ambiguous. In line 23, “we do not need the wall,” he doesn't seem to see the need for a wall yet, he is the one rebuilding it “I have come after them and made repair” and reminding his neighbor every spring to do so as well (lines 11 and 12).
This expression is often used in everyday conversations and implies that if the borders are clearly defined in the sense that no one trespasses the others private property, then they are good neighbors. However, in the poem this expression is interpreted in terms of the ambiguity of borders. Considering it's the neighbor’s only line in the poem, the narrator seems to impose on us that it is not he but the neighbor who is in favor of building walls or borders. This interpretation is further emphasized when the narrator says “If I could put a notion in his head” referring that he is trying to explain to his neighbor that building walls is purposeless. Further, through lines 40 and 43, “like an old-stone savaged armed” and “He will not go behind his fathers saying”, the narrator seems to refer to the neighbor as someone with an old school thinking that does things out of habit without ever questioning their