1. NAME: BORICHA DEVIKA K
SEM : (3)
PAPER NO: (10)
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MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
SUBJECT: SUMMARY OF HOME BURIAL
DR.DILIP BARAD
DEPARTMENTOF ENGLISH
2. INTRODUCTION OF WRITER
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...........“Home Burial” is one of
Frost’s most overtly sad poems.
There are at least two tragedies
here: the death of a child, which
antacids the poem, and the
collapse of a marriage, which
the poem foreshadows.
............“Home Burial” is about
grief and grieving, but most of
all it seems to be about the
breakdown and limits of
communication.
Born: 26 March 1874,
Died: 29 January 196
3. HOME BURIAL
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.............In this narrative
poem, Frost describes a
tense conversation
between a rural husband
and wife whose child has
recently died.
As the poem opens, the
wife is standing at the top
of a staircase looking at her
child’s grave through the
window. Her husband, at
the bottom of the stairs,
does not understand what
she is looking at or why she
has suddenly become so
distressed.
4. ........The wife resents her
husband’s obliviousness
and attempts to leave the
house.The husband begs
her to stay and talk to him
about her grief; he does
not understand why she is
angry with him for
manifesting his grief in a
different way.
....... Inconsolable, the
wife lashes out at him,
convinced of his apathy
toward their dead child.
The husband mildly
accepts her anger, but the
rift between them
remains. She leaves the
house as he angrily
threatens to drag her back
by force.
5. .....The death of child.
.....The death of marriage.
......The title “Home burial”
can be read as a tragic
double entendre.
.......The death of child is the
substance of the couples
problems the larger clash
that destroys the marriage
is the couples inability to
interconnect with each
other.
......The husband is more
accepting of the natural
cycle of life and death
general .
