Home Burial

       This was a very sad poem to me. It looks into the struggle that couples face when they lose a child. The wife is very emotional and is still having a hard time with the lost of her child, while the husband is more indifferent and kind of hostile. She does not want him to speak of their child because it seems to her that he has no feeling on the subject which I am inclined to agree with her on. The husband does not really seem to have much feeling about the subject at all he is very nonchalant and matter of fact when talking of his child. His biggest concern is that Amy, his wife will not let him into her pain. "blind creature; and awhile he didn't see" I think refeers more to the fact that he does not understand his wifes pain or try to help her he is more of forcing his way in. The poem is not a happily ever after and ends with both of them very angry but I think it really shows the pain and emotion of people and how different people deal with grief.

Mending Wall

Frost mending wall is a great poem every time I read it. It shows this two neighbors that mend their fence every year even thought there is really no need to. The speaker is trying to convince his neighbor that its not necessary but his neighbor just keeps saying that good fences make good neighbors.

              "And on a day we meet to walk the line
                   And set the wall between us once again.
                  We keep the wall between us as we go.
                 To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

I think that the wall represents something more. It seems to describe how each neighbor has gone though things that year and the boulders have fallen on them but instead of connecting with each other they rebuild the wall between them again and move on as if nothing has happened. They want the wall to stay up or at least until "their back is turned". I think he is also trying to say that there is no reason to keep this 'wall" between them they have been neighbors for a long time and they have the opportunity to share their burdens but the only thing they share is mending the wall.

The Yellow Wallpaper

     This story is about a woman who slowly goes crazy on account of her hideous wall paper. She is actually "sick" when she comes to stay at the house with the terrible wallpaper, but it seems that her obsession with the it is what allows her to jump of the edge. It is quiet clear not to far into the story that her fixation with this wall paper is making it come alive before her very eyes, even before she says so herself.

          " There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere There is one place where two breaths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other."

  
She begins early on in the story to describe the wallpaper with human like features. She uses such human metaphors and similes that when she actually does start to believe that the wall paper is alive it takes a second for you to catch on. When she says "the woman behind it ( the wallpaper) shakes it." its like whoa when did she actually say she thought the paper was alive! I like this story it is very descriptive and at times a mind bender but it gives a very good insight into the characters mind and kept me captivated both times I read it.