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Reading like a dialog ripped from the life of a married couple, Home Burial is more of a conversation than a poem. With no real introduction, Robert Frost gives the reader an intrusive look at an intimate moment in a couples life. Home Burial is a poem written to show the different grieving methods people may take. Dealing with the death of a child, Frost shows the rift that human emotion may make on a bond as strong as marriage. The poem opens with a confrontation between a man and woman, later revealed to be husband and wife. Taking place inside the couple’s household the husband inquires to the wife about why she is always looking out the window from the top of their stairs. Offering her husband no answer he looks for himself and realizes what it is she always sees, the grave of their child. It’s during this opening scene that