Gerald R. Ford Leadership Forum

May 18, 2023

Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” and One Means of Ordered Civic Life

by Jason Peters [Ed. Note: The full poem appears at the end of the essay. You are encouraged to read it first, remembering that poetry is meant to be read out loud.] We do violence to a work of art by using it for our own ends, especially for our own ideological or political ends, …

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