Lavrtw
Pndru&
Mending Wall
Robert Frost 1874-1963
ambit 0 ntame tav
iam U
wu d2
vntentrd acmtea
ovw Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
fam tametev5 beats paw line2
n auru
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
a r l
And spills the upper boulders in the sun; blank ve/S. 12amit
pmts metev
wal poems Mat don{ amurallu rhym
A n d makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
brenk H wall,wny
huntu, C The work of hunters is another thing: rLe vwse no ilannh fi 2ala
mi
done r t m o v e ro tks tor
neLd hr
I have come after them and made repair dos Pemta mates n r vh )
6ep%Aboa Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
Hain But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
a) To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
breuk t uull Sew4tly ou tof feav
obstud has seen them made or heard them made.
Noone
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; o n t m i ' h y intwack 'S
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
om on
M sun Fo sepu Are
We keep the wallbetween us as we go.
To each the boulders thathave fallen to each. diffewmt so n S to
tA (pe haa vw reasonS
And
some are loaves and some so nearlyballsSep /A miauhon 2
ku diswi
We have to use a spell to make them balance: q
K
uyo n Mv3* compro mise & wo
n o aep up mt4 hori cul
ons have
tbe a CeprpA
eus
Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them. uthuall dd m u m
Oh. just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
eS o F
I am apple orchad. dttwnts petSyp
Heis all pine and
My apple trees will never get across 'soening drtarn t
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
o r me wal
c oniy says, Good fences make good neighbors & a dvot u Snq
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
IfI could put a notion in his head:
Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
ws m pewso w f m s a e d . 2
Before I built à wall Id ask to know
ourlod walls
s t eCes S ury t o
What I was walling in or
walling out, 2
wmd separutt a m selv<
And to whom I was like to give offense.
vepehhon of m , why
Something there is that doesn'tlove a wall, yoni tinds te p 1a
s i b e c a 5e W
That wants it down. I could say 'Elves' to him, vo w u l l , u n w n s a o 3 9 * O lonstiously
swmtma
and I'd rather say
hsonal aa wnt o utenowledaj mata
Dutts notelves exactly, wull downj
ont n S would wam
hvm
t
human /ra d'ona
He said it for himself. I see him there ni on a
m wall down
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
)Ana d urk 2
intwisto
wall ibuíin wh nihho
mvAS
He moves in darkness as it secms to me,
nor ncR
why 1q
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saving, inhawited i&ur m t a a l r's u d e
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, 'Good fences make good neighbors.' na bo h u s NO A 2S0
m wuit's
do sbt mat
Unntas
CornellNotes
ecture, reading/chapter/novel/article
Name: L2rm Andrads
during class, power point, movies (if need Class: 2/rs¬tA 12 Period: 2
to collect info)
Tonic: Memding Wau-F.os Datc: 3/15|22
vDjective(s): Re adinq n d o mprekmdina, Gtevavy te y+s poetry)
Notes:
Th humts a n shwwn us b ad u3 te uv down
walbtu Avmorlat douhtSwhy walisMedad
Somanma s,itbgood to tta down L wulIS;SepAuhon
isnk alwaus posn
Lh YLpeathe l 1s m's becaue evwyona mds o plua yp wz \is
lin wnonjtaoSl wnd Lon Süoy slyti:1yina to waki
note *VCot e wullywe put vp,and mat maybe.
allna inwulliagovt}Isit ALeSSa/ to bv ilA wv alls ta wallin 0 wal1 dvtE
Isut ying to 2nqlu2elmaaus2nalu2 why w Stavted
build iná ulsia hirst pluce 2
maesin darkess2 wh dbes Hhauiqnbo movein davEass whai).
hahed2 Jqnd rena2
"n o h2s Setan Do hahvutys break niwulisecvt Hy outof Fea 7
alping doq 2 Whe Ant ylpina loqs,uvnd hgshouldHhy|
yle3 ed 2
h yado heyonninue |tven ik ha avmov qve sh'o a s whu e wall lzis*s
Avhov n H niqh bov con iavR to mma
the wll,S ThR idonna3 heeu puSs douwn and
tvaht mat hs wallmost on hnve toezisk awd myst
be mavded whnitisQLg ry de nitu/ully md
lovrooseillu.
Summary: o m m speakw md Ma i a h b ov kiep rpa i n o wall
wal doesnt
hatsRp avas eym as itis pst of tvad1hon but L
ucku ally havemuch puLpose. JuSt becaue sonmmtningiS hvadihon,it
pesnt mat it is a 40od wudin0n i a r should ba vpheld.
