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Mending Wall, poem by Robert Frost, published in the collection North of Boston (1914). It is written in blank verse and depicts a pair of neighbouring farmers working together on the annual chore of rebuilding their common wall. The wall serves as the symbolic fulcrum of their friendly antagonism; it balances their contrasting philosophies about brotherhood, represented by the sentiments “Good fences make good neighbors” and “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.”

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