學長姐的Mending Wall

Mending Wall/ Robert Frost

Mending Wall

Robert Frost

"Rock wall" by diskychick is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.

Something there is that doesn't 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."

Exercise 1: Shall, Should

•1. I shall have to go.
•2. I shall hold you responsible.
•3. I shall return.
•4. I shall never forget your advice.
•5. We shall never surrender.
•6. We shall overcome some day.
•7. Shall I help you carry that box upstairs?
•8. Where shall we go first?
•9. Let’s go for a walk, shall we?
•10. Each competitor shall wear a number.
•11. You shall have a nice toy if you are a good boy.
•12. Ask, and it shall be given.
•13. You shall not steal.
•14. We should obey our parents.
•15. You should pay your debts.
•16. You should eat more fruit.
•17. We shouldn’t tell a lie.
•18. You came late. You should have come earlier.

Introduction

Introduction

1071 Selective Readings on American and British Literature I

Translation

1071 Chinese-English Translation and Composition I

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