Home Burial Summary

Home Burial by Robert Frost

 

Home Burial is about a man and woman who have lost their child and bury him in the backyard. This loss is affecting their marriage. The pain is unbearable. Everytime the wife looks back at the grave of the child, it pains her. In the beggining, the husband is unable to understand what she is facing but then, he does it. The way for the man to deal with this loss and the pain is by physical working which includes digging the grave for his child. he tries to rescue their marriage, but he does not know how to do it and fails everytime. She asks herself how he can get over it and hide the pain. He asks her to express her feelings but his unability to read between the lines and to see beyond, makes the situation unfixable.

Robert Frost

 

Born on March 26, 1874, Robert Frost spent his first 40 years as an unknown. He exploded on the scene after returning from England at the beginning of WWI. Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and a special guest at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, Frost became a poetic force and the unofficial "poet laureate" of the United States. He died of complications from prostate surgery on January 29, 1963.