Robert Frost wrote many poems that gathered interest in readers' eyes and minds. Many of the poems made his universe seem almost terrifying. Robert Frost's universe is a show of how terrifying real life is.
             Death is one part of the terrifying universe that Frost shows everyone. The death in his poetry demonstrates a realism in life, something that can't be prevented and something that can't be changed. "Home Burial" is a poem about the death of a son. The mother grieves deeply over such pain that she has to leave the house to talk to others, due to her husband not truly being there for her. The father tries to convince her that he is there for her, but he has an almost non-caring attitude towards the death of his child, almost forced if anything. That kind of attitude shows how the death of a child can affect the minds of parents and sometimes others. The mother seems upset about the fact that the father dug the hole for the son with a non-grieving look to his face. A cited passage from the poem will demonstrate the biggest problem between the two.
             You make me angry. I'll come down to you God, what a woman! And it's come to this, A man can't speak of his own child that's dead.
             You can't because you don't know how to speak. If you had any feelings, you that dug With your own hand – how could you? – his little grave;
             Mordecai Marcus states the following about the poem: ""Home Burial" may not be as popular as "Mending Wall" and "The Death of the Hired Man," but it is Frost's most critically acclaimed and intensively analyzed narrative. Again, Frost deals with barriers between people-in this case a husband and wife who have recently lost their first child and who handle their grief in strikingly different ways-according to their characters and expressive capacities. The locale is a New England farm with a family burial plot in the yard, illus...