Amy refuses to allow this to happen. She will not let him share her pain or even get close enough to try to understand it. She continuously isolates him and will not communicate with him. For Amy, talking about her grief and the loss of their child can only bring her more pain. In the poem Frost allows you to see the isolation when he tells you, “She withdrew shrinking from beneath his arm.”(Frost). Amy is very careful to keep her distance from her husband, because he is the one that put their child in the ground. When the husband spoke of rotting birch fences, she associated this with the rotting corpse of their child. She sees her husband as unfeeling and unemotional about their child. Since she will not communicate with him, she cannot understand how he could just bury their child and not give it a second thought.Home Burial opens the eyes of the reader. It allows one to see the different ways people grieve. It shows that there is no right or wrong way to grieve, and that just because two people don’t show their grief in the same manner it does not mean that one person is in more pain than the other. This poem shows the importance of communication between a husband and wife, and that the best way to get past the pain of losing a loved one just may be to lean on others, who like you, were also left behind...
