Bearing in mind Frost's presentation of boundaries in Mending Wall consider the ways in which this poem relates to the methods and concerns of other poems in the collection.

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Bearing in mind Frost presentation of boundaries in ‘Mending Wall’ consider the ways in which this poem relates to the methods and concerns of other poems in the collection. In ‘mending wall’ ‘two look at two’ and ‘there are roughly zones’ Frost explores the idea that boundaries affect relationships in different ways. In Mending Wall, the neighbour says ‘good fences make good neighbours’ voicing his opinion that
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boundaries can assist a relationship. However, the speaker sees the wall as literally dividing people when he says ‘I’d ask to know who I was walling in or walling out’’. This suggests the speaker thinks boundaries break a relationship as it separates people and keeps them further apart. In the poem ‘Two look at Two’ the purpose of the fence seems to be separating humans from nature. The people in the poem ‘were halted by a humbled wall’ as if it was there to separate them from the animals. However, further on ‘there was more’ when they encountered the buck ...

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