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? isnt it
where there are cows? but here there are no cows.
before i built a wall id ask to know
what i was walling in or walling out,
and to whom i was like to give offence.

who is the speaker of the “mending wall”?
the poet, robert frost
robert frosts neighbour
the apple orchard owner
the father of the neighbour

Explanation:

In the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, the speaker uses the first - person pronoun "I" throughout. Lines like "I have come after them and made repair" and "I let my neighbour know beyond the hill" clearly indicate that the speaker is the poet himself. The other options are incorrect as there is no indication in the poem that the speaker is the neighbor (the neighbor has distinct lines like "He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbours'"), the neighbor's father (not mentioned at all), or just an apple orchard owner (the speaker is more than just that - he is the one with the internal dialogue and the one interacting with the neighbor, which aligns with the poet's role in presenting the narrative).

Answer:

the poet, Robert Frost