Robert Frost Home Burial Essay

Krishna Patel
Mrs. Lowe
Honors English II
28 February 2018
Through the Mother’s Eyes
The poem “Home Burial,” written by poet Robert Frost describes the different ways a wife and husband grieve for the loss of their first child. The husband dug is child’s grave, and the wife is not happy with it. The couple comes across an argument due to the wife showing plenty of emotion, unlike her husband (Frost). The wife should be angry at her husband because the husband is not agreeing with her actions and is not understanding her feelings during a difficult time. “Grief is a normal and natural response to loss....grieving such losses is important because it allows us to ‘free-up’ energy that is bound to the lost person, object, or
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Both the wife and husband are experiencing grief, but the wife’s actions are more extreme than the husband’s actions (Frost). According to the author of “Loss of a Child,” most parents say they lose a part of them when their child dies (Loss of a Child). A mother who loses her child grieves differently than the father.
The wife’s grieving process is different that her husband’s, but showing emotion during the grieving process is healthy (Change, Loss, and Grief). The emotions the wife shows are sadness and anger (Frost). Sadness is usually the most universally experienced symptom of grief,

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According to the ‘Change, Loss, and Grief’ article, females tend to recover from grief slower than males; some also experience complicated grief. A sign of complicated grief is the inability to accept support from people (Change, Loss, and Grief). The wife, not wanting her husband’s support, left to grieve with another person (Frost). The wife’s actions are appropriate in this time of her life because she has lost a loved one.
Losing a child can bring a time of emotion to a mother. Mothers often respond differently than fathers. One example is the wife and husband in Robert Frost’s “Home Burial.” The wife is going through an emotional time; she is not willing to accept support from her husband, but that is an effect that grief can have on a person. She is willing to accept support from someone else because she feels the husband did not care for their child. He dug their son’s grave without his wife’s consent (Frost). The wife is going through a rough time and she needs someone’s support, if not her husband’s.

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