In Home Burial by Robert Frost, the audience is shown a husband and wife that have recently lost their child and are each grieving in their own way. The audience sees the different literary devices that Frost uses but also the theme of this poem. The theme of the poem that Frost wants us to understand by the end is that death and grief of a loved one can damage any relationship no matter how strong it is. In section one, the husband and wife are looking out the window at the cemetery and the husband wants to know what the wife is looking at. The key idea in this section is a conflict because the wife knows what she is seeing but the husband is totally oblivious to what she is looking at. In Frost’s poem, it is stated, “What is it you see?
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In this stanza, the audience knows that the wife has moved on from her husband to someone that understands her grief. Here in lies the key idea of the problem that arises throughout the whole entire poem. Frost exclaims, “Amy! Don’t go to someone else this time…You don’t know how to ask it. Help me, then.” (Frost 39, 43-44) The key idea is another problem that arises is that the husband is asking the wife to talk to him and to try to help mend their relationship by him asking her to help him understand. The textual element that helps us confirm this key idea is style. To me, I feel like when the husband says “Help me, then. I feel like he is begging her to help him understand so that they have at least one more chance to repair their …show more content…
But he is telling her that he might be able to be taught to see her point of view. Frost dictates, “My words are nearly always an offense. / I don’t know how to speak of anything So as to please you. / But I might be taught.” (Frost 45-47) The key idea in this stanza is problem because the husband is trying to reason with the wife through understanding. But he also demotes her by saying, “A man must partly give up being a man with womenfolk.” (Frost 49-50) But this could also be setting because of the time period and how at this time women did have a voice and the men controlled their
In this stanza, the audience knows that the wife has moved on from her husband to someone that understands her grief. Here in lies the key idea of the problem that arises throughout the whole entire poem. Frost exclaims, “Amy! Don’t go to someone else this time…You don’t know how to ask it. Help me, then.” (Frost 39, 43-44) The key idea is another problem that arises is that the husband is asking the wife to talk to him and to try to help mend their relationship by him asking her to help him understand. The textual element that helps us confirm this key idea is style. To me, I feel like when the husband says “Help me, then. I feel like he is begging her to help him understand so that they have at least one more chance to repair their …show more content…
But he is telling her that he might be able to be taught to see her point of view. Frost dictates, “My words are nearly always an offense. / I don’t know how to speak of anything So as to please you. / But I might be taught.” (Frost 45-47) The key idea in this stanza is problem because the husband is trying to reason with the wife through understanding. But he also demotes her by saying, “A man must partly give up being a man with womenfolk.” (Frost 49-50) But this could also be setting because of the time period and how at this time women did have a voice and the men controlled their