trating familiarity with death, which partly accounts for the husband's taciturn handling of his grief."
             The poem opens with intense looking and severe gestures between the man and woman, as she gazes from a stairway window at the backyard grave of her recently dead child, defensively and accusatorially, both calling attention to herself and refusing her husband's concern for her grief. He seems not to have noticed the view from the window, but his tender description of the gravestones and the child's mound-not yet marked with a stone-show that he is not unfeeling but that such family deaths have become an everyday part o
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