Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.The work of hunters is another thing:I have come after them and made repairWhere they have left not one stone on a stone,But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,No one has seen them made or heard them made,But at spring mending-time we find them there. Whom does the speaker blame for the gaps in the wall?
The speaker says the frozen ground swells and pushes stones out of place, then adds that hunters leave damage while chasing rabbits with their dogs. He says the gaps are already there when the neighbors come to mend the wall. So he blames nature and hunters, not his neighbor or the rabbits and dogs themselves.
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