Question

Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall." I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours." Based on the excerpt, what does the speaker think of his neighbor? He is stubborn. He is interesting to talk to. He is a quick worker. He is disorganized.

Answer 1

He is determined, willing to put in the work day or night, busying himself by using both hands. stubborn too, he sticks to what he knows (his father's saying) and won't budge.

Answer 2

Robert Frost's poem Mending Wall explores boundaries between men to the point of unawareness and carelessness . The wall is seen as a boundary and it is seen as a mental boundary. It has a literal meaning in the poem. Frost's neighbor is "a wall" which cannot move and cannot change. Even the repairment of the wall does not make it to change. He doesn't want to change, doesn't want to understand, even there is a small disagreement between them. The correct answer is the first option.