Question

Why does the neighbor say that “good fences make good neighbours” in "Mending Wall"?
He does not like the poem’s speaker.
He doesn’t want cows in his fields.
He is worried about people being on his land.
He is repeating what his father used to say. 2Who is the speaker of the "Mending Wall"?
the poet, Robert Frost
Robert Frost’s neighbor
the apple orchard owner
the father of the neighbor 3Whom does the speaker blame for the gaps in the wall?
himself
his neighbor
nature and hunters
rabbits and dogs

Answer 1

1) He is repeating what his father used to say.
2) The apple orchard owner (the poem's first-person narrator, not Frost himself).
3) Nature and hunters (the speaker blames "something" — frozen-ground-swell and other natural/outsider forces — for the gaps).