Question

Read this excerpt from "Mending Wall," by Robert Frost:

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs.
What is the speaker of this poem doing?


Hunting



Inspecting a stone wall



Building a fence



Arguing with his neighbor

Answer 1

sorry guys im doing credit recovery and half these question I don't understand after I read the notes and I get these questions :/

Answer 2

im doing it to lol

Answer 3

lol im not sure on this one

Answer 4

if u would have to take a guess what would u say?

Answer 5

wait

Answer 6

hunting is the answer

Answer 7

here is the whole poem

Answer 8

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor 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 outdoor 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.'
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
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.

Answer 9

where else would u see a dog

Answer 10

it says yelping dogs

Answer 11

i see a dog everywhere

Answer 12

I would say d

Answer 13

well look at ur choices

Answer 14

?

Answer 15

c*

Answer 16

it can only be d or a

Answer 17

theirs the whole poem not just a small piece of it

Answer 18

well why a fence?

Answer 19

the words in this poem are rather tricky

Answer 20

i say D

Answer 21

And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.

Answer 22

ohhhhhh its C

Answer 23

it says swell the ground under it

Answer 24

what does a fence do? its inside the ground right?

Answer 25

yes sir

Answer 26

and plus the dog could be by a fence

Answer 27

c final answer