Question

Read the following excerpt from the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost:

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 neighbors.

'Which best describes the speaker's tone in this passage?

A.He fears his neighbor because he threatened him with the stone.
B.He is critical of his neighbor because he believes that he is stuck in the past. C.He admires his neighbor's strength by the way he handles the stone.
D.He mistrusts his neighbor because they have such little interaction.

Answer 1

It has to be B, he is stuck in the past

Answer 2

Answer: B) He is critical of his neighbor because he believes that he is stuck in the past.

Explanation: this poem tells how the speaker and his neighbor reunite each year to reconstruct the fence that separates their lands, the speaker doesn't understand why they do that, since they don't have any animals to contain, only trees, but the neighbor insists because he follows his father's saying: "good fences make good neighbors", this also demonstrates how the neighbor is stuck in the past, by following an old saying and tradition.