Through his use of imagery, Robert Frost paints a picture for his audience that shows how emotional ignorance can lead to tragedy. According to Jay Parini in Robert Frost: A Life, Frost uses a lot of landscape depiction and imagery because of his Northern New England influence. Frost grew up surrounded by lush valleys, rocky mountains, dry stone walls, and forests. In 1914, Frost published his narrative poem “Home Burial”. At this time, society dictated that …showed first 75 words of 467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 467 total…maturity than her husband and chooses to leave the house. The poem ends with somewhat of an empty threat by her husband when he says “I’ll follow you and bring you back by force. I will!” This shows an empty threat because he cannot follow her to the emotional space where she is going. Since Amy left her husband, the final tragedy of this poem by Robert Frost becomes the burial of the home.