Question

Select the correct text in the passage.

Which line in this excerpt from Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” suggests that the speaker and his neighbor are quite different?




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 neighbours."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
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 offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down."

Answer 1

"He is all pine and I am apple orchard"

Answer 2

I agree with the person above - the correct answer is He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
This line clearly shows how different these two men are - pines and apples are obviously quite different. On one hand, there is this neighbor who wants to build a wall between him and the world, and on the other, there is our narrator who wants to tear the wall down.