Home Burial: Analysis

Part I of Essay
B. Analyze the couple in Frost’s “Home Burial.” What has made them grow apart? How does this poem exemplify the Modernist period? The couple in “Home Burial” is lacking the love that is found within solid marriages. The couple has obviously lost a few children together, ....

Part II of Essay
.... not be phased by the great loss that they have endured. Later on in the poem the husband begins to talk again, stating: “We could have some arrangement, By which I’d bind myself to keep hands off, Anything special you’re a-mind to name. Though I don’t like such things ‘’twixt those that love. Two that don’t love can’t live together without them. But two can not live together with them.” Right here he is saying that he should have just stopped having children with her. That people can not live with nor without sex. He’s eluding to the fact th ....