Which lines from "Mending Wall" indicate that the neighbor is willing to participate in mending the wall?

A. 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:

B. 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!"

C. I let my neighbour 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.

D. 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.

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Rhianna Daniel

24 September, 13:47

Which lines from "Mending Wall" indicate that the neighbor is willing to participate in mending the wall?

A. 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:

B. 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!"

C. I let my neighbour 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.

D. 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.

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Phoenix Lynch · Answer 1

The correct answer is "C".

"The Mending Wall" is a poem written by Robert Frost in 1914. It tells a brief story of two neighbors who gather every year to repair a stone wall that divides their property. However, the narrator is highly skeptical about this practice due to the fact that there is no cattle or other forms of livestock in any of the 2 properties. Nevertheless, both neighbors alleged that the maintenance of the wall is crucial to keeping a good relationship, as "Good fences make good neighbors".