Who is the speaker of the "mending wall"?
a. the poet, robert frost
b. robert frost’s neighbor
c. the apple orchard owner
d. the father of the neighbor

The correct answer is option C. "the apple orchard owner". The poem "Mending wall" by Robert Frost is about two rural neighbors that had a wall that separate them. The speaker is the apple orchard owner, as can be noted by the lines "He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across".

The speaker of the Mending Wall is the apple orchard owner. It is stated in the poem.  

EXPLANATION:  

Mending Wall is a 1914 poem and Robert Frost’s literary work. This poem is about two neighbors who meet on a spring day to repair the wall which separates their properties. Yet, these two neighbors have different sight of the wall. The speaker of the poem doesn’t see that it is needed to keep the wall between them. Yet, his neighbor sees it in a different way. In the speaker’s neighbor’s mind, it is important to keep the wall between them to separate the properties. The speaker’s neighbor also recites the proverb that says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

The speaker of the Mending Wall, which is the one who disagrees about the idea of keeping the wall between the neighborhood is an apple orchard owner. It is stated in line 24 of the poem. “He is all pine and I am apple orchard.” The speaker thinks that his apple trees won’t cross the area. His apple trees also won’t eat the cones under his neighbor’s pines. Thus, it is unnecessary to keep the wall between them.

Actually, Robert Frost himself creates mischief in the poem to introduce the readers to a controversy. The speaker’s neighbor thinks that it is important to keep the wall because “Good fences make good neighbors”, yet in the end, he doesn’t state why good fences make good neighbors. He remains silent until the end of the poem.  

LEARN MORE:  

If you’re interested in learning more about this topic, we recommend you to also take a look at the following questions:

1.Why is the image of the setting sun most likely not described in great detail in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"?    

2.Read the quotation from "Song of Myself."  

KEYWORDS: Mending Wall, Robert Frost, the speaker of Mending Wall, who is the speaker of Mending Wall  

Subject: English

Class: 10-12

Sub-chapter: Mending Wall  

the sentence that avoid faulty coordination is:

culture, which is well represented in philadelphia, plays a major role including theatre, music, and the visual arts.  

faulty coordination occurs when the writer gives equal importance two different ideas (clauses) which in fact are not equivalent. in order to correct a misplaced clause or idea, the writer can place less important or emphatic ideas in a relative clause as in the previous sentence.