The conflict causes a gap between them that the narrator doesn't seem to understand. "The gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there." (pg. 28 l. 9,10,11) "The gaps" can be read literally or figuratively by the reader. They are literally the gaps which have been formed between the wall, and he nor the neighbor know how they were made. Figuratively, the gaps are in he and the neighbor's relationship, and the only time they are found is during the time of renewal- spring time. This idea of renewal is alive in the narrator. Spring is a time for mending and renewing, and the "Spring is the mischief in [him]". (pg. 28 l. 28) He wants to learn and renew a relationship with the neighbor, but because of their extreme difference in personalities, they are separated. There are many symbols and images in this poem which enhance the meaning of separation. The wall which they are building is the wall which separates them both literally and figuratively. As they build it they ". set the wall between [them] once again/ [They ] keep the wall between [them] as [they] go". (pg. 28 l. 14,15) But the spring inside of the narrator causes him to question "What [he] was walling in or walling out/ And to whom [he] was like to give offence". (pg. 28 l. 33,34) He wants to know who his neighbor really is and possibly even become his friend. But this wall is the block which separates them. The word "offence" sounds as though he's saying "a fence", and this is what is setting them apart--a fence. The narrator knows that "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" (pg. 28 l. 1,35), and that something is him. He doesn't want to be separated from his neighbor because he'd like to form some type of repore with him. There is also the image of darkness which continues the idea of the unknown. The narrator notices that "[The neighbor] moves in darkness.