Comparing 'Home Burial And A Sorrowful Woman'

Family: Addressing Issues
The poem “Home Burial” by Robert Frost and the short story “A Sorrowful Woman” by Gail Goodwin are similar in the theme of family by focusing on the couples and how they address the issues they have. There are three family members in both “Home Burial” and “A Sorrowful Woman,” and each family has had a death that occurs. Each family has a wife,a husband, and a child. The death in “Home Burial” did not happen in the poem, but the death is a major part between the wife, Amy, and her husband. In “A Sorrowful Woman” the death is intentional. In theses two works the deaths are very important to how the problems are addressed by the families.
Amy and her husband, in “Home Burial,” have lost their child. The child was their …show more content…
The couple tend to argue since Amy is always leaving the house. The main issues in the poem is the grieving of the death of the child and the way the wife feels about the death and how the husband handles it. The main issues in “A Sorrowful Woman” are the way the mother feels about her family and it is caused by her illness. Both the wife and husband know that something is wrong with her. She simply wants to sleep and the husband simply gives her that by giving her glass of cognac and a glass of liquid that would put her instantly to sleep. The wife saw her husband and son less and less. One day an incident happened where the wife hit her son and made sure her husband saw. Since the wife couldn’t care for their son they hired a nanny. The nanny moved into their home and took care of their son most of the time. The couple went out one night and they both agreed that she seem to be getting better: “‘I think you are better, you know.’ ‘Perhaps I am,’” (Godwin 41). The nanny upset the wife one day which lead the wife to fire her. The husband simply agrees to what his wife wants done in the home. They no longer have a nanny which leads to the husband to change his work schedule in order to spend more time at home. The days continue and the wife is now only taking notes from underneath the

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