Robert Frost: Poems

Robert Frost : Mending Wall

"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

what i was walling in or walling out."

explain the underlying idea.

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This line alludes to the fact that the speaker would approve the wall, and even assist in its construction if he were given a reasonable reason to do so.

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The Mending Wall