I think Frost meant walls make better neighbors than fences. :+)


Tom Miller wrote:
On 14 Sep 2004 21:21:58 GMT, Ed Clarke wrote:


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| "Good fences make good neighbors"
| proverb in "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost
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Actually, that's what the *neighbor* says in "Mending Wall." The poet
is disputing this. The whole point of the poem is "Something there is
that doesn't love a wall."