When reading this poem I could relate to the narrators opposition to having such things as separation fences or walls. This is a poem about neighbors who try to keep separation of their lands. The narrator tries to find the fun in mending this fence every spring, "Oh, just another kind of outdoor game"(21). The narrator wonders why they should need separation and why "Good fences make good neighbors"(27). "What I was walling in or walling out"(33), in other words if your such good neighbors why is a wall needed? The wall may signify tradition and it is just what people have been doing forever. Maybe the other land owner wants it known what is his without any question.
JenN
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