Home Burial

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Home Burial is a narrative poem by Robert Frost that portrays the emotional estrangement of a grieving couple after the death of their child.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf narrative poem
poem
author Robert Frost
authorNationality American
centralTheme communication breakdown
death of a child
gendered responses to grief
grief
marital estrangement
collection North of Boston
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
dialogueDominance predominantly dialogue
firstPublicationYear 1914
firstPublishedIn North of Boston
form blank verse
genre dramatic dialogue
narrative poetry
hasDialogueBetween husband and wife
hasThemeOf class and rural life
emotional repression
inability to share grief
isolation
includedIn The Poetry of Robert Frost (various editions)
surface form: The Poetry of Robert Frost
language English
literaryDevice colloquial speech
dramatic irony
enjambment
imagery of rural labor
literaryMovement New England literary culture
surface form: New England regionalism

Modernism
surface form: modernism
meter iambic pentameter
narrativePerspective third-person dramatic
primaryCharacters husband
wife
publisher David Nutt
settingLocation rural New England
structure single continuous scene
subjectMatter marital conflict after bereavement
psychological impact of loss
symbol child’s grave
path to the graveyard
staircase
window
timePeriodDepicted early 20th century
tone intense
tragic

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Robert Frost notableWork Home Burial
North of Boston containsPoem Home Burial