Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall." 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 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. What does the line “And some are loaves and some so nearly balls” refer to?
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The tone becomes a bit more playful in these lines, as the farmers attempt to cast a “spell” on the stones. This idea will be reinforced later when the speaker thinks about “elves.”
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This is an excerpt from the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost.
Here the speaker and his companion is mending a wall that keeps falling. The phrase, "And some are loaves and some so nearly balls" refer to the sizes of the boulders.
Some boulders are of a shape that looks like a bread or loaf. The other boulders look like balls. This means that the boulders are round and that is why those are not fitting in the wall.
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