Analysis of Home Burial
Robert Owen
Marjory Thrash
Eng 1123 V02
13 April 2009
Analysis of “Home Burial” Many of Robert Frost’s poems and short stories are a reflection of his personal life and events. Frost’s short story “Home Burial” emulates his experience living on a farm and the death of two of his sons. Frost gives an intimate view into the life and mind of a married couples’ struggle with grief and the strain it causes to their marriage. The characters Frost describes are synonymous, physically and emotionally, to his own life events. “Home Burial” is a look into a troubled married couples’ relationship and the emotional stress the death of their child has inflicted upon them. Being isolated on a farm in rural Massachusetts, the wife, Amy, has no one to turn to for comfort other than her husband. Amy is suffering from extreme grief due to the loss of her first-born child. She lashes out at her husband for being insensitive and apparently emotionally unaffected by the death of their child. Their conflicting views on grief cause Amy to repress her anger and resent her husband. Her husband’s negligence during their child’s burial triggers a dramatic emotional outburst during her fragile state of mind.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874. When Frost was eleven, his father died from tuberculosis in 1885 and Robert’s mother took the two children, Robert and Jeanie, to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where they were taken in by the children's
paternal grandparents. Robert and Jeanie grew up in Lawrence, and Robert graduated from high school in 1892. A top student in his class, he shared valedictorian honors with Elinor White, with whom he had already fallen in love. Robert and Elinor shared a deep interest in poetry, but their continued education sent Robert to Dartmouth College and Elinor to St. Lawrence University. Impatient with academic routine, Frost left Dartmouth after less than a year. He and Elinor married in 1895 but found life difficult,
Marjory Thrash
Eng 1123 V02
13 April 2009
Analysis of “Home Burial” Many of Robert Frost’s poems and short stories are a reflection of his personal life and events. Frost’s short story “Home Burial” emulates his experience living on a farm and the death of two of his sons. Frost gives an intimate view into the life and mind of a married couples’ struggle with grief and the strain it causes to their marriage. The characters Frost describes are synonymous, physically and emotionally, to his own life events. “Home Burial” is a look into a troubled married couples’ relationship and the emotional stress the death of their child has inflicted upon them. Being isolated on a farm in rural Massachusetts, the wife, Amy, has no one to turn to for comfort other than her husband. Amy is suffering from extreme grief due to the loss of her first-born child. She lashes out at her husband for being insensitive and apparently emotionally unaffected by the death of their child. Their conflicting views on grief cause Amy to repress her anger and resent her husband. Her husband’s negligence during their child’s burial triggers a dramatic emotional outburst during her fragile state of mind.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874. When Frost was eleven, his father died from tuberculosis in 1885 and Robert’s mother took the two children, Robert and Jeanie, to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where they were taken in by the children's
paternal grandparents. Robert and Jeanie grew up in Lawrence, and Robert graduated from high school in 1892. A top student in his class, he shared valedictorian honors with Elinor White, with whom he had already fallen in love. Robert and Elinor shared a deep interest in poetry, but their continued education sent Robert to Dartmouth College and Elinor to St. Lawrence University. Impatient with academic routine, Frost left Dartmouth after less than a year. He and Elinor married in 1895 but found life difficult,
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