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Humans have an uncanny ability to place themselves at a comfortable distance from each other and call it a “mutual understanding,” a “friendship,” or even “true love,” but it is all lies. The essence of man’s mystery is somewhat of a paradox. He year ....

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.... adds: 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. One may find far-reaching connotations in this poem. As well as that it states one of the greatest difficulties of our time: whether national walls should be made stronger for our safety, or whether they should be let down, since they impede our progress toward understanding and eventual common humanity. "Mending Wall" can also be considered a symbolic poem. In the voices of the two men the younger, capricious, "modern" speaker and the old-fashioned farmer who replies with his one dogged sentence, his i ....