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“Home Burial”

March 2014 - Robert Frost Poetry

“To take your mother-loss of a first child
So inconsolably—in the face of love.
You’d think his memory might be satisfied. . .”

“There you go sneering now!”

“I’m not, I’m not!
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;
I saw you from that very window there,
Making the gravel leap and leap in air,
Leap up, like that, like that, and land so lightly
And roll back down the mound beside the hole.
I thought, Who is that man? I didn’t know you.”


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Ending on a very sad poem.
Robert Frost's works are very touching, very sad, and this one is especially more sadder than the others


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Jola Dziubinska31-Mar-2014 22:13
Impressive capture and processing for this sad poem. Well done Janice. V.
Terry Sprague31-Mar-2014 18:38
Excellent one to end this difficult challenge! V
laine31-Mar-2014 04:17
Nicely captured, Janice...it works well with the poem too
LynnH31-Mar-2014 01:51
They were sad and cruel, but also very real and a good portrayal of the hard lives of country people. This is a really good one for the challenge. Artsy! V
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