Mending wall

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“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost

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“Mending Wall”by Robert Frost

What is the “something that does not love a wall” that Frost refers to twice in the poem?

What is paradoxical about the “wall” itself; how do “good fences make good neighbors”?

What is “ironic” about the poem’s speaker reminding the neighbor that it’s time to mend the wall?