Home Burial

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In the poem "Home Burial," Robert Frost is talking about a couple is on the verge of separating. They are missing the love that is the foundation of a marriage. I think the main issue in this poem is the death of a child that they have not addressed yet. The staircase is where the poem occurs which in my opinion makes both the husband and wife come together and the distance that is between them. In their first discussion, I think Frost is trying to tell the reader that the husband buried the child in the yard, and as the child was being buried the wife watched from upstairs. I think the problem is caused by husband's carelessness in burying the child. When the poem starts, their separate feelings are finally expressed, and each is surprised at what the other has to say. The husband speaks from the bottom of the stairs, the wife from a step just above the landing. The husband feels that his wife should not be worried about the loss of their child. The wife takes for granted that her husband may very well miss the child too. She thinks that he has forgotten all about their child, she may be


in fact been right. He then says, "The wonder is I didn't see at once. I never noticed it from here before. I must be wonted to it-- that's the reason. The little graveyard where my people are! ... There are three stones so slate and one of marble... We haven't to mind those. But I understand: it is not the stones, But the child's mound---"During this passage he is being so cruel. He is just sort of rubbing it in that they have lost their child. It is almost as if it were her fault that all this has happened. The husband seems to not be phased by the great loss that they have endured. Later on in the poem the husband begins to talk again, saying, "We could have some arrangement, By which I'd bind myself to keep hands off, Anything special you're a-mind to name. Though I don't like such things 'twixt those that love. Two that don't love can't live together without them. But two can not live together with them." Right here I think he is saying that people can not live with nor without sex. He's hinting to the fact that in order for the child to be made in the first place they had to have sex. He is also saying that he cou

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