‘Where do you mean to go? First tell me that. I’ll follow and bring you back by force. I will! ‘ swears the man at the end of the poem. A proud oath and obviously one he means to keep. The poem suggest that he has done this before. The scene’s words and the exact facts may change but the poem appears to be one of couple on the verge of breaking up. While the context may be quite familiar there is one thing that is strange in all of this. It would appear that there is a baby buried in the house! In the poem I would side with the woman
“Looking back over her shoulder at some fear. She took a doubtful step and then undid it” In the beginning the woman looks like she intends to leave the house. But out of fear for her husband it she is unable to make for the exit. She takes a fretful step forward then retracts it when she sees that her husband is watching her every move. ‘I will find out now-you must tell me, dear’. She asks the man. Strange as it may seem she is looking for some kind of mound, some sort of burial place in the story it is revealed that she is searching for the corpse of their dead child.
‘I will find out now-you must tell me, dear. ‘ ‘Not you! Oh, where’s my hat? Oh, I don’t need it! The wife is desperate to find the burial mound so much so that she is willing to forsake her hat. Now in the poems setting this would be quite an upset since in those days it was cold and she was willing to forgo the protection the hat would offer her. ‘Don’t-don’t go. Don’t carry it to someone else this time. Tell me about it if it’s something human. Let me into your grief. I’m not so much Unlike other folks as your standing there Apart would make me out.
Give me my chance. I do think, though, you overdo it a little. What was it brought you up to think it the thing To take your mother-loss of a first childSo inconsolably-in the face of love. You’d think his memory might be satisfied. ‘ Here the man replies to his wife’s rants. Obviously the woman is suffering from some post child-birth depression. She is unable to deal with the death of their first born child and is having a manic episode. For his part, the man is trying to reach out to her to no avail. She is too far gone and is need of professional help.
But I find the man reprehensible because he would deny her comfort which he is perhaps in capable of giving at this point. I understand the he does not want her running around sharing her stress with others and shaming him and her as well. But I think is more appropriate that the wife is able to unburned herself and perhaps return some semblance of sanity. You won’t go now. You’re crying. Close the door. The heart’s gone out of it: why keep it up. The husband is convinced of the futility of the wife’s protests and her attempts to leave he recognizes that her insanity is what drives her.
Regretfully, he can do little to assuage her. But still he would prevent her from going out. In essence the poem is about a woman driven mad by the miscarriage of her first born and a man who while barely able to contain his own grief is unable to do anything to aid his wife’s sufferings. The woman grieves and grieves desperately she is in need of professional help but can not get it. Instead she will try to obtain comfort by searching for the burial place of the child, which the husband did not reveal to her.
She goes out on wild hunts for it and all he can do is bring her back home after she tires herself out of hunting. The man is a poor player who should know and do better than simply let his wife go on raving The essay must be on the poem `Home Burial` by Robert Frost. The poem deals with two characters and you have to pick sides between the mom and the dad. Which one do you feel is more right, and why. Why is the other one you didnt choose not liked as much? What did they do? Also include 3 quotes per paragraph.