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: 5 i have come after them and made repair where they have left not one stone on stone, but they would have the rabbit out of hiding, to the yelping dogs. the gaps i mean, no one has seen them made or heard them made, 10 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. 15 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. 20 oh, just another kind of outdoor game, one on a side. it comes to little more: 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. 25 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. 30 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 offence. something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down! " i could say "elves" to him, 35 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, 40 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." the metaphors in line 23-24 serve primarily question 1 options: reveal the crops grown by the speaker and his neighbor underline the vast areas encompassed by the two farms emphasize the contrasting personalities of the speaker and his neighbor provide a hint of the neighbor's attitude toward the speaker