1.  Name: Khanjaniba M Gohil.
 Class: MA (Part-2).
 Semester: 3.
 Paper Name: The American Literature.
 Topic of presentation: Use of language in the poem
“Home burial” by Robert Frost.
 Suggested by: Heenaba Jhala.
 Dedicated to: The Department of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar.
 Email: khanjani.gohil1993@gmail.com.

2. Robert Frost
 Born in US on 26th March, 1874.
 Died on 29th January, 1963.
 Contribution as poet and playwright.
 Setting from rural to urban life.
 Four time got Pulitzer Prize in Literature.
 Won ‘Congressional Gold Medal’ in 1960, for his
poetical work of art.

3. Poems which were written in morning has been
became most famous.
 Colloquial approach to language- “ The sound of
sense”.
 Personal life was full of grief and loss.
 He has lost two children in his life.
 Jarell listed some poems as a masterpiece like:
“ A servant to servants”
“ Directive”
“ To Earth ward”
“ Mending Wall”
“ Stopping by Woods”….

5. HOME BURIAL
 Poem is all about a burial of a child.
 The poem is of two person narrative.
 Rituals are part of those human lives who believes
in these ideas.
 In the title of the poem ‘Burial’ indicates death.
 Whereas prefix ‘Home’ refers to a child’s death,
title in itself much clear about the subject matter.
 Verbal interaction and non verbal interaction
between husband and wife.
 Facial Expressions are also important.

7.  “ She turned and sank upon her skirts at that,
And her face changed from terrified to dull”.
 “ Can’t man speak of his own child he’s lost?”
“ My words are nearly always an offense…” , - wife
speaks this lines as a frustration.
 Language reflects what is beneath the person!!!
 Man presented here as a rational being in
comparison to a woman.

8.  Mother’s feelings and Father’s feelings, there is a
clash between two ideas.
 Sometime we laughs a lot when we are in grief or
when we are alone.
 Personal anxiety of Frost is also reflected here.
 ‘ Sometime silence speaks more than words.’

9.  At the end of the poem a wife opens the door and
tries to escape from the situation.
 Her husband assures that he will bring her back to
him, back to home.
 “ I will ! – “