mending wall

Why is the wall so significant/ important? Who are these two men who hold the responsibility of mending the wall each year? Why do they keep the wall in-between them as they mend it? What is the wall protecting? Keeping out? Is the wall keeping a secret? The neighbor makes the remark that “Good fences make good neighbors,” (27) is there not trust between neighbors? As I read on throughout the poem the wall represents the indifference between the two neighbors. The speaker describes his neighbor “like an old-stone savage armed” (40). By the speaker descriptively saying how he sees his neighbor, it shows that he does not seem him in a positive way. There is indifference there, as the speaker wonders why they have a fence in the first place and questions the motives of his neighbor. The neighbor has something that he is hiding. He has some reason for keeping his neighbor out.
Emera Gould