The Hidden Meaning of Robert Frost's Mending Wall "Mending Wall" is a poem written by the poet Robert Frost. The poem describes two neighbors who repair a fence between their estates. However, it is obvious that this situation is a metaphor for the relationship between two people. The wall is the manifestation of the emotional barricade that separates them. In this situation, the voice of “I” wants to demolish this barricade while its “neighbor” wants to keep it. “Neighbor” here is a metaphor for two people who are emotionally close to each other. “Good fences make good neighbors,” is a phrase that the author emphasizes by using it twice. The “neighbor” says the phrase while the main character disagrees with it. He can't see that there is something between them that they need to "wall off or wall off." The voice of “I” considers itself a good-natured person. He is visibly worried because someone he cares about is excluding him. He thinks his “neighbor” has a dark character. “He is all pine and I am an apple orchard,” the poem says. Pine is a dark tree while apple trees have white flowers. In "Mending Wall", the main character finds holes in the fence. I believe that the emotions between the characters create these gaps. He informs the neighbor and together they repair the fence with rocks. When they meet, they argue or have communication problems. This is why they manage to repair the barricade that separates them. However, I would argue that their emotions, especially those of the main character, are trying to unbalance the rocks so that the wall can be leveled with the ground. Balancing the rocks is a symbol of their encounters; “We need to use a spell to balance them.” “We put our fingers to the test,” the author writes about handling rocks. We can interpret this to mean that the meetings between these two “neighbors” are very hard for them. This is a one-stanza long narrative poem. All lines have five accents and are written in iambic pentameter or blank verse, which was also the meter chosen by Shakespeare in his plays..