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¶ … Home Burial" And The Woman
In Robert Frost's "Home Burial," the woman in the poem is grieved -- both haunted by the death of her child and by the lack of compassion that she senses in her husband's callousness. At least, she perceives it to be callousness. As the poem plays out, it appears more and more that the man is simply short-tempered and lacking in emotional intelligence: he has none of the sensitivity that a grieving woman might prefer from a man. However, it might also be that her anger towards him stems from some unknown grudge -- some ill-will that she bears him and that it is projected outward only when she is frustrated by his attempts to intellectualize her grief. In Frost's "Home Burial," insights about the woman's character are given through the poem's dialogue and description -- snippets that begin first with the narrator, then the husband, then...
Her husband, who views her as skittish, afraid, uncertain, and alarmed then gives his assessment of her: she is "up there always" seeing something from the window that makes her behave so strangely to him (Frost 7). Of course, it is the grave of their child that she sees and it brings back those painful memories of how he buried the child while she wept and how he spoke of trifling matters when he came in as though he had buried a dog. She is beside herself with grief and rage when he tries to see what has provoked her so. When he realizes that it is their child's tombstone out the window, he attempts to pacify her -- but she resents him and does not want to open her heart to him.
Her character is deepened through her actions -- in the way she tries to flee -- she wants to rush out of the house to someone else. She wants to be…
Works Cited
Frost, Robert. "Home Burial." Web. 2 Oct 2016.
Jarrell, Randall. "Robert Frost's 'Home Burial.'" Modern American Poetry. Web. 2
Oct 2016.
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