KSEEB Class 10 · English (1st language) · KTBS Revised 2024-25
Mending Wall
Chapter summary, hard words and model exam answers for Karnataka Board Class 10 English.
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About the author
Robert Frost (1874–1963), American poet who wrote of New England rural life. "Mending Wall" questions whether "Good fences make good neighbours" each spring when two farmers repair a stone wall.
Summary
Frozen ground swells and hunters leave gaps; stones tumble each year.
Frozen ground swells and hunters leave gaps; stones tumble each year.
Neighbour and speaker meet to walk the line and set stones back - "mending wall."
Neighbour and speaker meet to walk the line and set stones back - "mending wall."
Speaker questions need for wall - no cows, only pine and apple trees.
Speaker questions need for wall - no cows, only pine and apple trees.
The neighbour repeats his father's saying: "Good fences make good neighbours."
The neighbour repeats his father's saying: "Good fences make good neighbours."
Walls may be unnecessary barriers; yet work continues.
Walls may be unnecessary barriers; yet work continues.
Tradition, property and friendship collide without easy answer.
Tradition, property and friendship collide without easy answer.
Hard words & meanings
| fence | structure marking a boundary |
| tradition | long-established custom repeated yearly |
| boulder | large rock used in the wall |
| gap | break or space in the wall |
| pine | evergreen tree on speaker's side |
| proverb | short well-known saying - "Good fences…" |
| irony | speaker finds neighbour ironically walled in by saying |
| property | land belonging to someone |
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