Home Burial Poem Analysis

Rose Kennedy once said “It has been said time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind protecting it’s sanity covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it’s never gone.” The loss of a loved one especially the loss of a child is a tragedy that many have to face every day, but that grief, pain, and anger that comes with losing a child never truly goes away. In fact most times it leads to the parents arguing time and time again and not being able to get back to the happy place they were in before the loss of their child. The loss of a child is such a traumatic event that it can cause married couples to come and resent one another and turn against each other without really knowing it and without talking about how they feel due to the tragic event.
According to Jean Galica, Licensed marriage and family therapist, “Marriages that have sustained the loss of a child through death experience the same valleys and peaks as any other marriage, just in a more exaggerated form.” This notion of married couples facing extreme hardship after the loss of a child hold especially true for the couple on Home Burial, as the wife turns her husband digging the grave of their dead baby into him not caring about what has happened. In Robert Frost’s Home Burial …show more content…
Home Burial was Frost’s way of showing how such a tragic loss can take something so pure as love in a marriage and turn it into a living nightmare that both parties do not know how to escape. This couple could not face each other and say what needed to be said in order to try and save their marriage. Instead Amy turned her grief into resentment and hatred against her husband and her husband turned his frustration into pushing his wife away by not listening to her or how she feels. Leaving both of them to feel empty and alone to grieve their little baby