The wall in the poem Mending Wall represents

two view points of two different persons, one by

the speaker and the other by his neighbour. Not
only does the wall act as a divider in separating
the properties, but also acts as a barrier to
friendship, communication. From the narrators
view, barriers lead to alienation and emotional
isolation and loneliness. The narrator cannot help
but notice that the natural world seems to dislike
the existence of a wall as much as he does and
therefore, mysterious gaps appear from nowhere
and boulders fall for no reason. The poem portrays
the lack of friendship between two neighbours,
they now each other but they are not friends.
There exists a communication gap between them;
they meet each other only on appointed days to fix
the wall separating their properties.
Thus, the poem is a sad reflection on todays
society, where man-made barriers exist between
men, groups, nations based on discrimination of
race, caste, creed, gender and religion.
On the other hand, the neighbor has different
opinions. He believes that Good fences make good
neighbours. He considers walls as necessary to
create physical barriers and for mending relations.
According the poets neighbour, physical barriers
set limits and affirm the rights of each and every
individual. Walls also stand for building goodwill
and trust.
The wall is also an example of metaphor in the
poem, Mending Wall.
The wall in the poem is a metaphor for two kinds

of barriers- physical and mental.

*Something there is that doesnt love a wall
*And set the wall between us once again
*We keep the wall between as we go.
The fence symbolizes national, racial, religious,
political and economic conflicts and discrimination
which separate man from man and hinders the
ways of understanding and cultivating
relationships.
The dispute between the two neighbours
symbolizes the clash between tradition and
modernity. The young generation wants to
demolish the old tradition and replace it with
modernity while the old wants to cling on to the
existing tradition and beliefs.
In Mending Wall, Frost has taken an ordinary
incident of constructing or mending a wall
between his and his neighbors garden and has
turned it into a meditation on the division between
human beings.