Of fences and peace between neighbours

Krüger, Rósaan

Title: Of fences and peace between neighbours
Creator: Krüger, Rósaan
Date Issued: 2009
Date: 2009
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68909
Identifier: vital:29338
Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC85309
Description: Publisher version
Description: The speaker in the poem "Mending Wall" by American poet Robert Frost questions the wisdom of the saying that "Good Fences Make Good Neighbo[u]rs" (1914 North of Boston lines 27 and 45). The walls or fences referred to in the poem represent more than just physical barriers separating adjacent premises; the speaker sees them as representing obstacles to communication and friendship between individuals. Seen from the perspective of the speaker, a fence or wall is a "bad" thing. But the speaker is but one of the parties to the neighbourly relationship. For the speaker's neighbour, a wall or a fence is "a protector of privacy" (Watson "Frost's Wall : The View from the Other Side" 1971 44 The New England Quarterly 653 655). Thus there are two views on walls or fences: they can be seen negatively as obstructing good relations, or positively as dividers that secure good relations between neighbours by separating them and protecting their privacy rights.
Format: 10 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Language: English
Relation: Obiter
Relation: Krüger, R. (2009) Of fences and peace between neighbours. Obiter, 30 (2) 360-369. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC85309
Relation: Obiter volume 30 number 2 360 369 2009 1682-5853
Rights: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the publisher Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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