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A.
1. The two things that causes gaps in the wall are, nature’s work of swelling the ground under the wall and secondly, the hunters’ work. The hunters would scatter the boulders to please the yelping dogs and get the rabbits out of their hidings.

2. The two characters fix the wall during spring mending time. They both put the boulders on their own sides and put up the wall.
3. The speaker humorously says that they needed a spell because it was hard trying to balance the boulders upon each other.
        The spell used by Robert Frost serves as an attempt to use humour in his poem.
4. The poet had always wanted to convince his neighbour that they did not need a wall between them, so he blames spring for his mischievous streak because during spring mending time he gets an opportunity to talk to his neighbour and share his opinion.
5. By ‘ What I was walling in or walling out’ the poet means that he was not sure what he was trying to protect or ’walling in' or what he was defending himself from, or ‘walling out.’
6. The speaker says that the neighbour appears to be moving in the dark, where he was speaking of the darkness of ignorance.

B.
1.a. the object that does not love a wall is the work of nature.
  b. it makes the frozen ground swell and spill the upper boulders to the ground.
  c. It creates huge gaps in the wall that even two people could pass chest to chest.

2.a. The poet differentiates their lands saying that the neighbour’s land is full of pine trees and his land is full of apple trees.
 b. His apple trees would not get to his land and eat the cones under his pines.
 c. The speaker uses humour to convince his neighbour giving the idea of his apple trees walking across to eat the pine cones.

3. a. The neighbour appears to move in the darkness because he is not ready to welcome modern ideas and was comfortably stuck with his father's conservative thoughts.
b. The darkness is emanating from the neighbour's ignorance to modernism and stubbornness not to go behind his father's teachings.
c. Yes, the poet is comparing the neighbour's adherence to darkness, because he was afraid of change wanted to stay away from socializing with people.

C.

1. As the poem begins the speakers says that there are hunters and nature's work that shows their dislike for a wall.He thinks that the neighbour who kept saying “Good fences make good neighbours" was a primitive savage who would not go behind his father's saying.
   But to the contrary we find that, when the wall  was broken down, the neighbour doesn't seem to care. The speaker, however seems to be concerned as we see in the line----‘I have come after them and made repair'.
   The speaker, on the other hand, takes the initiative to tell his neighbour about the need to mend the wall. We see this in the line ----‘I let my neighbour know beyond the hill'
  Thus we see that the speaker states his obvious dislike of the idea of a wall and still initiates and participates in mending the wall there where he thought, they did not need a wall.

2. The two neighbours have very contrasting characters. The speaker thinks that they do not need a wall while the neighbour keeps insisting that they needed the wall because ‘good fences make good neighbours'.  The speaker seems to be a young and modernised man who believed in things like universal brotherhood and globalization. On the other hand, the neighbour is an old fashioned traditional and conservative man who stubbornly stood by his father's teachings.
   The speaker’s land is full of apple trees and the neighbours land was full of pine trees. So the speaker thinks there was very little chance of getting confused or trying to encroach lands, but the neighbour would not put down the wall. The speaker is young and his idea is open minded, he believes in living in oneness, however, it is also true that this is not a very far sighted vision.

3. Good fences make good neighbours is a debatable statement. Walls or fences may mean ‘discrimination’ to some, while to others, it could mean ‘security'. The neighbour keeps telling the poet that good fences make good neighbours. The speaker tries to convince him that they do not need a wall because he was all pine and the speaker had apple trees planted on his land. It was because of the wall that they could not communicate or socialize. They only meet during spring mending time to put up the wall again.
      But there is also justification in the statement because to maintain distance is important to have good relation with neighbours. Without boundaries, there would be chaos and war among nations. Land Disputes occur because of lack of proper boundaries or walls. If there was no confusion between neighbouring lands then there would be peace between states, people and countries.
     Therefore, in some cases good fences make good neighbours but in some ways, they create hindrance for people to join hands to achieve bigger purposes.