Frost

Home Burial

As I read this poem it really surprised me that a man had written it. I think as the woman did that a man couldn’t understand a woman’s loss of a baby. After carrying a child for 9 months then to lose it would be un-bearable. The man in the poem was trying to be understanding for his wife but it wasn’t really coming through. He obviously loved his wife and wanted things to be as they were before but couldn’t understand that she needed more time to mourn.  She was apparently the type of person that doesn’t want to talk about the things that bother her where he seems to be the type of person that needs to talk about it. She was so deeply wounded by her loss that she also couldn’t understand how he could talk to people about other things on the same day that they buried their child.

The Road Not Taken

I have heard this saying for years but never knew that it came from a poem by Frost. I really liked it. The meaning is clear and shows how people never know where the road will take you until you make the decision to take that road. You can always take the same road as everyone else and never be worse for wear but then you can take the road that not that many people are taking and end up so much better off.

Fire and Ice

I liked this poem because it gives an opinion. Fire or Ice we will never know till it happens, each will be painful for those that are living and both have the ability to heal the earth from the damages that humans have inflicted on it for the last 300 years, but which will be the end?