Despite its simple, almost folksy language, "Mending Wall" is a complex poem with several themes, beginning with human fellowship, which Frost first dealt with in his poem "A Tuft of Flowers" in his first collection of poems, A Boy's Will.<span> Unlike the earlier poem which explores the bond between men, "Mending Wall" deals with the distances and tensions between men.</span><span>The poem explores the contradictions in life and humanity, including the contradictions within each person, as man "makes boundaries and he breaks boundaries".</span><span> The poem also explores the role of boundaries in human society as mending the wall serves both to separate and to join the two neighbors, another contradiction</span>
