The main theme of Robert Frost's "Home Burial" is the contrasting emotions related to the death of their child between man and woman. In “Home Burial,” the setting centers on the tragic death of a child. This poem was written in 1914, times were very different then, men did not cry openly, it was shown as a sign of weakness, they needed to be strong for their family, know the year this poem was been written can give the reader an idea. better understanding to understand the husband's reaction to the child's death, what may seem cold and heartless today was not necessarily so in the early 1900s, men tended to resolve conflicts through hard work . Man and woman have very different methods of grieving their child, which isn't really the problem, the problem is that they don't understand or can't accept the way the other grieves. The poem “Home Burial” shows how one loss can lead to another loss, in this case the loss of a child leads to the loss of a marriage. The baby is buried in the family cemetery, visible from an upstairs window of their home. House. Every day the mother walks past this window and cannot help but see the raw mound where her child was buried. The mother is openly mourning the loss of her child, she has not yet found a way to manage her grief and has not moved forward in her daily life, but most people in this situation gradually find a way to manage their grief. , and continue their lives. She has more than the emotion of grief, she is angry and bitter towards her husband who at first doesn't understand why would she be so angry with him? They should come together as a family to comfort each other during this time. At the beginning of the poem, the woman is in the middle of the paper...... lines (75-79). When the husband buried his son, the reader could see himself there. With the gravel flying and making it “jump” in the air. In the mind's eye, you could see the gravel sliding into the hole. We could actually visualize the mound rising. Three different tragedies occurred throughout this poem. The child's burial was first; the second was the burial of the marriage and finally the most symbolic and ironic tragedy is the burial of the house. Due to unfortunate circumstances, these three things have become closely associated with home burial. All these tragedies occurred following the child's burial. The couple's marriage could not survive such emotional loss. The marriage is therefore buried. When the marriage was buried, the house became its own burial place for the life of this family..