Home Burial
a poem

Though Frost wrote no more than two dramatic monologues of the order to Browning’s unsurpassed dramatic monologues such as “Andrea Del Sarto,” “My Last Duchess,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” (“A servant to servants” and “The Pauper Witch of Grafton” in Two Witches), innumerable of his other poems, “The Death......more

Personal Response: I didn´t really enjoy the poem because I don´t agree with how the man treats his wife. He shows no remorse for the loss of his own child and gives his wife no empathy. In those kinds of situations, I think a husband and wife need to come even closer together after losing a child.......more

Well, even for poetry, sometimes the content is more important than the style, as a our natural way of being runs from too much sadness. And that's the case with Home Burial, where a couple is grieving (in two very different ways) the death of our beloved infant son. So there are more questions than......more

This is an emotional gut-punch for anyone who has lost a child. I lost three babies in pregnancy and the grief from that was something that my husband and I reacted to in completely different ways. In this poem, Frost brought back all the reactions and pain, and the difficulties we had in finding ou......more