... fiction, to fill a winter's long mind made mischievious by the spring season (Lentricchia 105). In defense of why a wall should be maintained the farmer merely states his father's saying, "Good fences make good neighbors"(Frost 28). The farmer does not have any real proof of why the wall should be put back each spring, when there is no threat of livestock ... crossing the borders. When questioned a second time he gave the same answer and again without giving the reason why fences make good neighbors. Family tradition and work ethic seem to be this farmer's motivation. He seeks to get th...

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