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To be in the same (usually unpleasant) situation as someone else or other people
The primary theme in Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" is the self-imposed barriers humans make to separate each other and prevent interaction. The poem suggests that the wall is unnatural and unhealthy for them, yet the neighbors meet every year for maintenance. The wall is a metaphor for barriers we create and maintain on the basis of tradition.