In the poem of Mending Wall, Why would the speaker say "Elves" (line 36)?

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Answer 1

Because "trolls" would be too scary.

Answer 2

The speaker's considering giving his neighbor a mischievous answer to the question of who/what doesn't like a wall.
Only humans make walls - there are no "walls" in nature. It's the possessiveness of ownership that makes us erect walls, even when there's no real need to:

"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."

But the animal in us is "territorial":

"I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees"

We feel the need to "mark our territory", even though "owning" part of the earth is a foolish concept.
The only earth we'll "own" is that which we're buried in. And then, we'll become earth.

Answer 3

Sorry I cant help you, but Robert Frost poems are retarded.