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A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts the theme of death in William Carlos Williams’ The Dead Baby and Robert Frost’s Home Burial. No additional sources cited.
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seems normal and part of life to others. In William Carlos Williams poem The Dead Baby and Robert Frosts Home Burial both poets speak of the death of a child
and do so in different ways. The following paper examines the theme of death in each one individually and then compares and contrasts the two. The paper illustrates that both
poems clearly indicate that men and women deal with the death of a child very differently. Home Burial Home Burial is a poem that allows the reader to
be witness to a conversation between a husband and wife. The conversation, or argument perhaps, is focused on the fact that the husband does not want her to leave the
home and go find solace somewhere else in relationship to her grieving for their lost baby: "She withdrew shrinking from beneath his arm/ That rested on the bannister, and slid
downstairs;/ And turned on him with such a daunting look,/ He said twice over before he knew himself:/ Cant a man speak of his own child hes lost?" (Frost 33-37).
The wife replies that perhaps no man can, indicating that no man can adequately express or talk about the death of a child the way a mother can. And, it
is generally understood that when a child dies a strain sets in upon marriages, often leading to divorce. In essence, men and women deal with the death of a child
differently and there seems to be no way for many men and women to actually bridge the distance between them. Frosts poem is a very good example of this.
The husband asks why she cannot stay and talk with him, why she has to run away to someone else and talk about her sorrow with them. He tells her
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