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A 3 page essay that offers a psychological explication of Robert Frost's poem "Home Burial." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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Frost describes the "the most painful labor a man can do," which is bury a couples firstborn child (Lincoln 104). A psychological perspective informs the reader as to the Frosts
main themes, which are that the unnamed male protagonist of this domestic drama, and his wife Amy have very different ways of handling of grief and that their failure to
understand this difference will likely mean that, if not the legal end of the marriage, the end of emotional intimacy. It begins with the husband observing his wife as
she descends the stairs in their home. As she does so, she looks back over her shoulder, which Kenneth Lincoln takes to be an allusion to literary and cultural precedents,
as he compares this to "Jacob looking up at the Angel," as well as "Eurydice weaving away to Dis" (Lincoln 105). The husband asks her what she has been observing
and there is a brief interchange in which the husband realizes that she has been observing the family graveyard and, specifically, "the childs mound-" (Frost line 31). The wife stops
him, repeating "Dont" over and over again (Frost line 32). To which the husband cries in frustration, "Cant a man speak of his own child hes lost?" (Frost line 37).
As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with loss, each in their own individual manner, with each
following the expectations of their gender. Amy carried the baby in her body and gave birth. For her, it is simply not possible to grieve deeply, openly and long. The
husband handles grief in a masculine context, as he subsumes his grief in action and movement. But the active nature of this reaction is taken by his wife to mean
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