Question

)Read the following poem and compare it with “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost.
          Good Neighbours

To my shame I’ve been mending fences again,

a quaint habit I inherited from my father;

he would rather fix a fence than parley

repair and that it is where our views diverged.

He said fences were meant to make good

Neighbours. In the intervening years I had it

wrong, believing a fence was a line of defence.

along a disputed border. In my father’s sense

It was the commencement of a wider duty,

a line where trust and respect must meet

And mesh, where neighbours are defines.

Today he watched me fix the fence-naturally

It made eminent sense to him as my cattle had

raided his space. When I said it was his fence too,

That the problem was shared he agreed, and thanked me for making repairs. I would that he could have read my face.

( parley- to discuss with others to solve a disagreement; intervening- coming between two events; mesh- to fit together or match closely)

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3) The poem 'Mending wall' presents the paradox in 'something there is that doesn't love a wall ' and good fences make good neighbours'. Both true but contrasting points of view. Substantiate your own views on this. (4)​

Answer 1

Answer:

Yeah it is matching and it is liked to me

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