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    Robert Frost Home Burial Analysis

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    The document provides an analysis of the poem "Home Burial" by Robert Frost. It summarizes the plot, which involves a disagreement between a mother and father over how to grieve for their lost child. The mother is grieving for longer than the father and feels judged. Both characters experience suffering in different ways - the mother relives the event while the father struggles to understand her grief. The analysis then examines examples from the text that provide insight into each character and their mental states during this disagreement. It discusses elements like enjambment and how the characters seem to mock each other's stated desires.

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    The document provides an analysis of the poem "Home Burial" by Robert Frost. It summarizes the plot, which involves a disagreement between a mother and father over how to grieve for their lost child. The mother is grieving for longer than the father and feels judged. Both characters experience suffering in different ways - the mother relives the event while the father struggles to understand her grief. The analysis then examines examples from the text that provide insight into each character and their mental states during this disagreement. It discusses elements like enjambment and how the characters seem to mock each other's stated desires.

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    The document provides an analysis of the poem "Home Burial" by Robert Frost. It summarizes the plot, which involves a disagreement between a mother and father over how to grieve for their lost child. The mother is grieving for longer than the father and feels judged. Both characters experience suffering in different ways - the mother relives the event while the father struggles to understand her grief. The analysis then examines examples from the text that provide insight into each character and their mental states during this disagreement. It discusses elements like enjambment and how the characters seem to mock each other's stated desires.

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    In Robert Frost's, 'Home Burial' the characters were a mother and a father who were having a

    disagreement over the proper way to grieve for a lost child. The mother was grieving for a longer period
    of time than the father and the mother felt judged on her grieving duration.

    Both characters experienced suffering in the poem, but in different ways. The mothers suffering was
    demonstrated by how she relives the event over and over again graphically. The author expresses this
    when she is able to describe the specifics of how the digging of the burial happened and what the father
    had said to himself on the porch. The father suffering was shown on how he is struggling to understand
    the mothers grief and longs for the ability to help, but is unable to. The author shows us this suffering
    when the father expresses how he wishes to be the one who helps instead of other people.

    The narrator gives several examples throughout the text that describe the characters and their
    situations which provides us an insight into each of the characters. The narrator starts in the first two
    stanzas providing insight into the mans attention to detail as watching the woman come down the
    stairs. This suggests that the man is cognoscente that the woman has been exhibiting her grief
    subconsciously leading to preoccupied distraction. I think this speaks to how the man has been aware of
    the issue for a period of time without trying to address it. The narrator then in the next stanza provides
    us with a visual that the woman is walking down stairs, but looking back up at "fear." This demonstrates
    the level of distraction from even the simplest of tasks showing that the woman is preoccupied by the
    grief. The narrator then later enlightens that after the man had asked her what she is looking at that he
    was going to be able to guess what it was. This shows that the woman is not aware of how her actions
    are demonstrating the continued grief.

    The author uses some examples of enjambment throughout the poetry. The most obvious example to
    me was when the author used two different lines for the following phrase when he had plenty of room
    to add more words to the first line:

    "She, in her place, refused him any help

    With the least stiffening of her neck and silence."

    As we can see here that there was plenty of room to add another word to the first line. The second
    example I found of enjambment was when the author uses dashes instead of punctuation such as this
    example:

    "With your own hand -- how could you? -- his little grave;"

    The essay 'Fear in Literature' discusses Home Burial and provides that the author is showing a mocking
    mirror image of the the two characters. At the beginning of the writing the man demonstrates that he
    would like to keep the matters at home and not show everyone else, but later says he is willing to bring
    her back by force in front of everyone if needed. The lady believes that she has been concealing her grief
    very well so nobody will know, but later results into wanting to go out to others to get assistance.

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