I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
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."
Based on the excerpt, what does the speaker think of his neighbor?
answer
He is stubborn.
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Which lines from "Mending Wall" indicate that the neighbor is willing to participate in mending the wall?
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I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
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Which lines from "Mending Wall" best indicate that the speaker is amused while repairing the wall?
answer
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
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The Purple Cow
(Reflections on a Mythic Beast Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least.)
I never saw a Purple Cow;
I never hope to See One;
But I can Tell you, Anyhow,
I'd rather See than Be One.
What is the main difference between "The Purple Cow" and Frost's poem "Mending Wall"?
answer
the use of rhyming in "The Purple Cow"
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I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
What does the phrase "one on a side" mean?
answer
The speaker and the neighbor repair the wall from opposite sides.
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Which practice was typical of Robert Frost?
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writing in free verse
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The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
What is the main difference between Sandburg's "Fog" and Frost's "Mending Wall"?
answer
"Fog" uses metaphor, while "Mending Wall" does not.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
This excerpt is an example of
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blank verse.
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Why does the neighbor say that "good fences make good neighbours" in "Mending Wall"?
answer
He is repeating what his father used to say.
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The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
What is the main similarity between "Fog" and Frost's poem "Mending Wall"?
answer
Both use everyday language.
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