Question

mending wall
by robert frost
something there is that doesnt love a wall,
that sends the frozen - ground - swell under it,
and spills the upper boulders in the sun;
and makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
the work of hunters is another thing:
i have come after them and made repair
where they have left not one stone on a stone,
but they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
to please the yelping dogs. the gaps i mean,
no one has seen them made or heard them made,
but at spring mending - time we find them there.
i let my neighbour know beyond the hill,
and on a day we meet to walk the line
and set the wall between us once again.
we keep the wall between us as we go.
to each the boulders that have fallen to each.
and some are loaves and some so nearly balls
we have to use a spell to make them balance:
“stay where you are until our backs are turned!”
we wear our fingers rough with handling them.
oh, just another kind of out - door game,
one on a side. it comes to little more
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.”
now read “the pasture,” also by robert frost.
i’m going out to clean the pasture spring;
i’ll only stop to rake the leaves away
(and wait to watch the water clear, i may):
i shan’t be gone long.—you come too.
i’m going out to fetch the little calf
that’s standing by the mother. it’s so young,
it totters when she licks it with her tongue.
i shan’t be gone long.—you come too.
which best accounts for the different views of spring expressed in the poems?
the poems were written at different locations.
frost’s speakers represent his own views.
frost’s opinions changed through time.
the poems have different speakers.

Explanation:

In "Mending Wall," the speaker has a more complex view of spring (associated with mischief and questioning the need for a wall). In "The Pasture," the speaker has a simpler, more inviting view (going out to clean the spring and fetch the calf). Since the poems have different speakers (different voices expressing different outlooks on spring - one more contemplative and conflicted, the other more straightforward and positive), this accounts for the different views.

Answer:

The poems have different speakers.