Robert Frost Home Burial

American poetry is often written on events or obstacles the poet of the work has been through in life. The more obstacles a poet has been through in life the better the work. Robert Frost had an interesting and somewhat devastating life coming up and expressed what he had been through, through his poetry. Frost and his wife had six kids together, then tragedy struck they ended up losing two children. The poem "Home Burial" discusses the emotions and the conflict the death of their first child had caused through figurative. In the poem, Robert Frost includes hyperbole, imagery and extended metaphor to give off the emotions of frustration, grief and, anger.

First , Frosts uses hyperbole to display frustration between the characters in this poem.

In the poem, the author displays the grieving of the couple's loss through imagery. Frost vividly describes the child's grave "The little graveyard where my people are/ So small the window frames fit the whole of it/ Not so much larger than a bedroom, is it" (Frost lines 24-26). Robert Frost uses imagery to give us a clear image as to what the woman is staring at in the beginning of the poem. The wife is grieving hard throughout the poem. The description gives us a clear understanding that the grave belonged to a little child. Every morning she stares out her window at the grave site; that is her way of grieving with the fact that she lost her son. The imagery continues "You could sit there with the stains on your shoes/ Of the fresh earth from your own baby's grave" (Frost lines 87-88). The author is using imagery by describing the shoes that the child's father had worn when digging up the grave site. The child's mother is just in such awe she cannot believe that her husband can bare the fact that he had just dug up a grave for their first deceased child. This shows grief because the mother is just depressed and takes it out on her husband. While the husband's way of grieving was by getting closure and putting his son to rest in something he had built. Frost gives us a detailed description "There are three stones of slate and one of marble/ Broad-shouldered little slabs there in the sunlight/ On the sidehill" (Frost lines 27-29). Robert Frost gives us a clear image by describing what the child's grave looks like in the wife's perspective. She is so depressed still over her son's death. Her staring at the grave constantly everyday thinking about her son is how she copes with the fact that her baby is gone. The author displays her grief by giving a very detailed description on anything to do with her son's