Home Burial
"Home Burial" and The Closure of Gaps While reading "Home Burial" I encountered many gaps. These smaller gaps seemed to lead me to one main gap, which I picked to concentrate on. The gap was, what did the man do to upset his wife, and how was the man and wife's relationship? Since the gap did not come from a particular point of the poem, but the poem as a whole, I feel that it sums up the entire meaning of the poem. I think that this gap was caused by not knowing how to read the characters' emotions and actions. A critical step in my reading of the poem, was not actually reading the text, but watching a video version of the poem.Robert Frost's poem "Home Burial" is an interesting poem because it focuses around the death of a child but concentrates primarily on the relationship problems between the parents. This poem is attention grabbing because so many different emotions were involved and the couple's marriage was at stake, which causes many gaps. Throughout the poem there are moments of uncertainty that the reader encounters because of a lack of knowledge; dogmatic, close-minded, think
After viewing the video and analyzing, not only the words, but also the actions and setting, I have concluded the son must have died from natural causes, maybe a disease or sickness. This then changed my total feeling towards the situation. " Also the husband seemed to have an overpowering tone of voice and seemed demanding, like how he told her not to leave. I feel that I filled this gap, this certain way might have been influenced by the fact I am a woman too. And so I feel that there is not one way to read this poem, but its significance is based upon what the reader puts into it and what he or she wants to get out of it. The movie allowed me to actually see the facial expressions and emotions of the character. Even though I believe my reading of the poem to be the "correct" way, I realize that this could be a result of my characteristics, or the video version I watched. Especially since the family lived out in the country there may not have been an accessible medical facility. During my first reading of the poem, I felt sympathy towards the wife because she had just lost her son and her husband seemed not to care or was even abusive. Since the man was so upset, I believe he was in a state of mourning and really did not know how to express his feelings. Also his actions were not meant to be threatening, but more protective and consoling. As I was starting to feel comfortable with the conclusion that the man was abusive to his wife and possibly even killed his son, seeing a video version changed my perception. I decided, based on the man's saddened face and his longing to help his wife, that he would never intentionally hurt his wife physically or emotionally. My mental image of the man changed too.
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