He is building and repairing the wall so that he can tear it down himself. He wants the wall down through the neighbours good, instead of bad intentions.
The social context of the author, Robert Frost, will influence the way in which a poem may be read, such as the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. A poem about the choice the persona has to make; either to stay and enjoy the beautiful woods or go and get on with his tiring life.
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, .
But I have promises to keep, .
And miles to go before I sleep,.
And miles to go before I sleep.".
This last stanza from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening really summarises the whole poem in a clear and simple way. A persona who has to make the decision and in the end he decides to get on with his life and fulfil the promises made to the people in his life. The poet's social context was clearly what influenced him to write this poem.
"My little horse must think it queer,.
To stop without a farmhouse near.
Between the woods and frozen lake.
The darkest evening of the year.".
This stanza represents the society of Robert Frosts time in which people and technology were both growing at a fast pace, ideology were also beginning to change. New discoveries and new jobs made people get caught up in their hectic lives for the one goal of earning money, that they did not see the beauty of nature. This is being represented by the horse in which he thinks it queer of his stop. .
"To stop without a farmhouse near".
This can be represented through Robert Frost's desperation to dissociate from human existence, which can be linked to his personal context in which one after another of his family carry misfortune.
"He gives his harness bells a shake".
Here the horse representing society shakes the persona out of his passiveness and leads him back to reality, of the deaths and sicknesses happen to his children and wife. The ending stanza of, .
"And miles to go before I sleep,.