“Good fences make good neighbours.”
This is a disillusionment to both of the characters in the poem. The two neighbors have built a fence, and one feels it's pointless because they have no cows to get mixed up, all they have is trees. The other neighbor on the other hand keeps saying the phrase his father once told him, "good fences make good neighbours." thinking the idea of separation. I feel the fence is pointless, if they have a big farm and lots of land why do they need a fence? Their pretty separated all ready. I feel though that the neighbour who wants the fence is white, and the other man is black. The white man his whole life has grown up with his father saying stay separated from the blacks, but he doesn't want to tell the man in a mean way. "He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, “Good fences make good neighbours.” I feel that the white man is disillusioned to think that he needs to have a fence to separate them just because of their race. I also think that the black man is disillusion by trying to persuade him in not having the fence, because in that time of day he should know their "suppose" to be separated.
"There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, “Good fences make good neighbours.”
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
“Why do they make good neighbours? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence."
And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, “Good fences make good neighbours.” I feel that the white man is disillusioned to think that he needs to have a fence to separate them just because of their race. I also think that the black man is disillusion by trying to persuade him in not having the fence, because in that time of day he should know their "suppose" to be separated.
"There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, “Good fences make good neighbours.”
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
“Why do they make good neighbours? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence."
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