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
—“Mending Wall,”
Robert Frost
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 neighbors.”
—“Mending Wall,”
Robert Frost
Which two forces are in opposition in these two excerpts from the poem?
A. ambiguity and clarity
B. the pleasure of disorder and the oppressiveness of order
C. the breaking down of structure and the preservation of structure
D. natural patterns and family patterns