The main theme of "Home Burial" by Robert Frost is the conflicting emotions between a husband and wife regarding the death of their son. In “Home Burial” the setting centers on the tragic death of a child. This poem was written in 1914, times were very different then, men didn't grieve openly, it was shown as a sign of weakness, they needed to be strong for their family, know the year this poem was written can give the reader a better insight into understanding the husband's reaction to the death of their son, what may seem cold and ruthless today was not necessarily cold and ruthless in the early 1900s, men tended to deal with conflicts by working hard. Man and woman have very different methods of grieving their child, which is not really the problem, the problem is that they don't understand or can't accept the way the other one grieves. The poem "Home Burial" demonstrates how one loss can lead to another loss: in this case the loss of a child leads to the loss of a marriage. The child is buried in the family cemetery, which can be seen from an upstairs window of their home. house. Every day the mother passes that window and can't help but see the rough mound where her son was buried. The mother is openly grieving the loss of her son, has not yet found a way to deal with her grief, and has not moved on with her daily life, but most people in this position gradually find a way to deal with the own pain and move on with their lives. She has more than the emotion of grief, she is angry and bitter towards her husband who at first doesn't understand why she would be so angry at him? They should come together as a family to comfort each other during this time. At the beginning of the poem, the wife is there... in the center of the sheet... lines (75-79). When the husband buried his son, the reader could see himself there. With the gravel flying and making it "blow" into the air. In your mind's eye you could see the gravel sliding back into the hole. We could actually visualize the mound getting taller. There were three different tragedies that emerged in this poem. The first thing was the burial of the child; the second was the burial of the marriage and finally the most symbolic and ironic tragedy is the burial of the house. Due to unfortunate circumstances these three things were closely associated with the house burial. All these tragedies occurred following the burial of the child. The couple's marriage could not survive such an emotional loss. Therefore the marriage is buried. When the marriage was buried, the house became the burial place of this family's life.
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