Home Burial In the poem "Home Burial,” Robert Frost is talking about a couple is on the verge of separating. They are missing the love that is the foundation of a marriage. I think the main issue in this poem is the death of a child that they have not addressed yet. The staircase is where the poem occurs which in my opinion makes both the husband and wife come together and the distance that …showed first 75 words of 752 total…

…showed last 75 words of 752 total…they have not been communicating well until the time in which this poem takes place. This appears to be the only time they have actually exchanged their ideas and feelings about their son’s to each other. People who do not communicate well just tend to drift apart. The reader is not assured that this marriage will regain the closeness it might have had prior to the death of the of the couple’s son.