"Something there is that doesn't have a passionate affection for a wall.

"Something there is that doesn't have a passionate affection for a wall," writes Robert cold manner complaining (in part) about the physical wall separating his quality from that of a neighbor. Is it really likewise important to keep the wall in useful repair, Frost asks. Is it so a good idea to have the wall at all? yet his neighbor won't speculate. "Good defences make good neighbors," he insists, and no matter what unsociability has to say, he reverts again and again to his slogan, "Good art of self-defences make good neighbors."

ice suggests that his neighbor's reliance onward a slogan puts up a kind of mental wall between them, a wall that he would have a passionate affection for to see come crashing down.

The same kind of lazy, self-satisfied reliance forward slogans is a main reason for the increasing polarization of American politics. Consider, for instance, the newly come "debate" on the flag-burning amendment.

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