Which theme is evident in this excerpt from Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"? But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my nelghbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says "Good fences make good neighbors " A. the human desire for material gain B. the influence of financial constraints C. the positive effects of friendship D. the uncertain nature of human rela8 E. the futility of human yearning
You build walls whether you know it or not. We are instilled with the idea that we must protect ourselves in certain situations. We actually pass these "walls" onto our kids and even our students.
