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

1) He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

2) He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."

3) "Why do they make good neighbours?

4) What I was walling in or walling out,

5) Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

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27 March, 09:17

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

1) He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

2) He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."

3) "Why do they make good neighbours?

4) What I was walling in or walling out,

5) Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

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Kennedi Gill · Answer 1

I'd say 1. I think that it refers to his neighbor and himself being completely different. Pine and apple are very different, although I'm fairly certain you've already come to that conclusion by now. Sorry I didn't see it earlier