Home Burial by Robert Frost has two speakers, a woman and a man, whom I assume are husband and wife because they talk about their child that is buried out in their yard. The wife seems to be openly grieving about the loss of the child and seems to be mad that the husband isn't grieving at all (well in her mind anyway). The first spot I noticed that the wife is upset is when she when she didn't want to tell him what she stopped to look at out the window. She didn't really think that he know that it was the child's grave. Then she mentions how she is upset how he dug the grave for the child and how she didn't know the man who was digging the grave and how he came back into the house with the mud on his shoes and going on with everyday life. It is almost as if she couldn't stand the sight of him after that point.
The man seems to be upset with the women going to find comfort in others and not with him and wants to work through this together. He tells her to don't go to someone else this time. He also asks her to help him, to help him talk, but he really doesn't get a chance to talk about the child. He even says he is cursed at one point. I think that is trying to say that he can't please her either way. He finally says that she needs to stay or else....basically...
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