suggests that the speaker himself goes to the wall at all times of the year to mend the damage done by hunters. It is the speaker who contacts the neighbour at wall-mending time to set the annual appointment although speaker says he sees no need for a wall. Thus we can assume that the speaker must derive something, some use, some satisfaction, out of the exercise of wall-building, or why would he initiate it here? There is something in him that does love a wall, or at least the act of making a wall