Question

Read the following excerpt from the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost:

There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
Which best describes the speaker's tone in this passage?
A. He finds it amusing that the neighbor insists on keeping up old traditions.
B. He resents the neighbor's insistence that he help rebuild the fallen wall.
C. He is relieved that the neighbor wants to continue maintaining the wall.
D. He is annoyed that his neighbor insists on maintaining an unnecessary wall.

Answer 1

The appropriate response is letter D. Clear verse is the gauge meter of this lyric, however few of the lines walk along in clear verse's trademark bolt step iambs, five side by side. Ice keeps up five focused on syllables for each line, however he differs the feet broadly to manage the normal discourse like nature of the verse.