Home Burial (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Frost
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Childbirth
“Home Burial” is an intensely dramatic poem about a bereaved and increasingly estranged married couple. The husband has just returned from burying their young son in a family plot of the sort that served northern New Englanders as cemeteries for generations. He mounts the stairs toward his wife “until she cowered under him.” What follows is a bitter exchange. The wife, unable to understand his failure to express grief vocally, accuses him of indifference to their loss; he, rankled by what he considers a groundless charge, tries blunderingly to assure her, but they fail to...
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