Mending Wall

A favorite Robert Frost poem of mine.

Reading Mending Wall, with its gentle pulsing rhythm is like walking in the woods with a friend and talking about some of life’s most important issues.

How should we relate to others?

What are walls for?

Do we always need them, or are there times when they must come down?

What is that something that doesn’t love a wall?

Is this poem a justification for open borders between nations? Why or why not?

Mending Wall was first published in 1914. It has been included in hundreds of anthologies and taught in English Lit classes ever since.