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In "Mending Wall," why does the speaker meet his neighbor beyond the hill in the spring?

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The speaker of the poem meets his neighbor every spring "to walk the line / And set the wall between us once again" (l. 13-14). This is a ritual that the two perform every year because there seems to be "something" that does not want the wall there: "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" (ll. 1-3). The...