One way you can read Mending Wall by Robert Frost is that it is about a man who rebuilds the wall seperating his property from his neighbour's. This man, this persona created by Gray doesn't seem to believe there is a use for the wall as "he [the neighbour] is all pine and I [the persona] am apple orchard" but his neighbour believes that "good fences make good neighbours". The persona tries to change his neighbour's opinion by trying to "put a notion in his head" but his neighbour seems to just ignore him. So the persona gets annoyed and thinks of him as an "old-stone savage". This is a very simple situation which we can all relate to. But, if we read deeper into the poem we may find the meanings that Robert Frost wanted us to see. Firstly, as we know that this persona is against the building of walls where not necessary we find that it is this persona that initiates the re-building of the wall "I let my neighbour know beyond the hill". This gives the reader something to think!
             about – it puts questions in the reader's mind as to why he would initiate this if he doesn't think it's necessary. One reason may be that this persona enjoys the company of his neighbour – but he gets frustrated with him. Maybe this persona is a lonely person and any company is good company – they "meet to walk the line". Maybe through mending the wall between them they are mending their friendship. These are all viable options and as we read further into the poem we may understand to a greater extent why he does this. When the two start building the wall the reader may notice that words such as "we" and "our" are used giving the feeling of cooperation and companionship. The persona once calls this task an "outdoor game" which connotes feelings of enjoyment, cooperation, competition. The fact that they walk "the line&...