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"Home Burial" is a poem about a man and woman who baby has died. It tells of the burial, how the parents react to this death, particularly their lack of communication. This piece is especially poignant given that Frost's son Elliot died at age 4, his daughter Elinor Bettina died when she was a few days old, his wife experienced a miscarriage, two of his daughters suffered mental breakdowns and died, and his son Carol committed suicide.
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“‘Home Burial’ may not be as popular as ‘MendingWall’ and ‘The Death of the Hired Man,’ but it is Frost’s most criticallyacclaimed and intensively analyzed narrative. Again, Frost deals with barriersbetween people—in this case a husband and wife who have recently lost theirfirst child and who handle their grief in strikingly different ways—accordingto their characters and expressive capacities.”
— Mordecai Marcus, The Poems of Robert Frost: An Explication
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“A moving and powerful human drama.”
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“‘Home Burial’ epitomizes Frost’s intimate relationships between sex, death, and madness.”
— Katherine Kearns, Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite
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About Robert Frost
Robert Frost (1874–1963) is America’s best-loved poet. His work epitomizes this country’s affinity for plain speaking, nature, and the land. Over the course of his literary career he won four Pulitzer Prizes, among many other honors.