OPINION
The beauty of poetry is that it's up to interpretation.
Some, when they read Robert Frost, believe that 'good fences make good neighbors' means it's best to have a clear divider between them and their neighbor.
In the poem, though, Frost points out that sometimes such a divider is unnecessary and redundant.
'It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.'
Sometimes, there's good reason for neighbors to share things, such as the work Aubrey, Krugerville, Pilot Point and Collinsville are doing to share the name of the Ray Roberts Parkway along U.S. 377 to match Tioga's long-standing name for the road. Sometimes, the best approach to life is reaching out your hand and working with your neighbor instead of running parallel on the same path.
Abigail Bardwell is the Editor & Publisher of the Post-Signal, and she serves on both the North and East Texas Press Association and the Texas Press Association boards. She can be reached at [email protected].
