Comparative study of the Neighbors in Mending Wall and The Ax-Helve by Robert Frost
Human interaction is the focal point of the poems Mending Wall and Ax-Helve. What makes for good neighborly relations In Mending Wall the neighbor insists Good fences make good neighbors. In Ax-Helve, Baptiste, the French neighbor does not subscribe to this view and is overjoyed (if overjoyed he was) at having got his neighbor into his house. So does that make the neighborly interaction different Yes and No.
In both poems there is an undercurrent of suspicion about the neighbor....