Frosts Home Burial
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Frost's "Home Burial"
In Robert Frost's "Home Burial" the recent loss of a child drives a wedge between a couple trying to cope with the grief, in which they handle in strikingly different ways. Frost also seems to show how the lack of communication adds to the splitting if this man and woman. The man shows that he is reconciled to the child's death in a way she can't be. The woman takes his words and actions as a lack of remorse for the passing of their son. Also, the house in which they live is described, as a kind of prison that the woman is trying to escape, but can't because of him. The use of rich imagery might leave a reader with a sense of despair and inadequacy of a man to satisfy the needs of an unreceptive wife.
Frost depicts the man as a desperate and sometimes impotent husband fighting for the affections of his wife, as seen in the following lines:
"My words are nearly always an offence.
I don't know how to speak of anything
So as to please you. But I might be taught
I should suppose. I can't say I see how...