How does the speaker’s repetition of the neighbor’s cherished belief about the importance of walls (lines 27 and 45) convey the
poem’s criticism of an undesirable social pattern? The speaker uses the neighbor as an example of what happens when people are too isolated from one another. The speaker uses the neighbor as an example of what happens when people are too isolated from one another. A The speaker imagines a conversation in which the neighbor openly expresses his hostility toward other people. The speaker imagines a conversation in which the neighbor openly expresses his hostility toward other people. B The speaker suggests that the neighbor thinks of the task of mending as a game to illustrate the neighbor’s belief in strict social rules. The speaker suggests that the neighbor thinks of the task of mending as a game to illustrate the neighbor’s belief in strict social rules. C The speaker describes the neighbor’s superstitious beliefs about elves in order to characterize him as uncivilized and misguided. The speaker describes the neighbor’s superstitious beliefs about elves in order to characterize him as uncivilized and misguided. D The speaker treats the neighbor’s words about fences as evidence of a world view that is closed-minded in general.
C The speaker describes the neighbor’s superstitious beliefs about elves in order to characterize him as uncivilized and misguided. The speaker describes the neighbor’s superstitious beliefs about elves in order to characterize him as uncivilized and misguided.
