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1			Reread "Mending Wall," and pay attention to Frost's description of his neighbor in lines 39-45. How do you interpret Frost's simile? What does it suggest about the speaker's feelings for his neighbor?
2			What do you think Frost means in the lines: "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 offense"? Why do you think he repeats the opening line in line 35? Why might he repeat the line "Good fences make good neighbors"?
3			In what way might the title "Mending Wall" be read ambiguously? How do you interpret its meaning?