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Society has used walls as multi-purpose boundaries for years. Some people put them up around their garden to keep their vegetables safe from animals. Others build fences to keep dogs from roaming about. Several construct stunning structures around their homes for the sole purpose of beauty. And there are those who put up walls purely for the sake of tradition. Sometimes, valued traditions are not always the best or most valid reason for doing something though. In his poem “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost illustrates the advantages of analyzing traditions, and possibly changing them for the better. In Frost’s poem, the narrator questions the seemingly useless tradition that he and his neighbor participate in. Every spring these two men get together and fix any damages that may have come to the wall that separates their two houses. Although initiating the annual mending, the narrator firmly states “som