"Something there is that doesn't love a wall"
What effect is achieved by the author's ch...
English, 11.02.2020 20:00 lucahoffmannm
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall"
What effect is achieved by the author's choice to begin the poem with this line?
A) It makes the reader wonder what the "something" is.
B) It sets up the characters to which we will soon be introduced.
C) It lets us know that this will be a poem written in the blank verse style.
D) It gives us crucial facts about the setting of the poem.
1Something there is that doesnât 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.
5The 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,
10No 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.
15We 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:
âStay where you are until our backs are turned!â
20We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door 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.
25My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, âGood fences make good neighbors.â
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
30âWhy do they make good neighbors? Isnât it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall Iâd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
35Something there is that doesnât love a wall,
That wants it down.â I could say âElvesâ to him,
But itâs not elves exactly, and Iâd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
40In 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 fatherâs saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
45He says again, âGood fences make good neighbors.â
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