Home Burial: Analysis B. Analyze the couple in Frost’s “Home Burial.” What has made them grow apart? How does this poem exemplify the Modernist period? The couple in “Home Burial” is lacking the love that is found within solid marriages. The couple has obviously lost a few children together, yet the man feels that his wife should not be worried about their remembrance. Also the wife takes for granted that her husband may very well miss them too. She thinks that he is oblivious to their existence on the burial grounds. She may have in fact been right. He then says: “The wonder is I didn’t see at once. I never noticed it from here before. I must be wonted to it-- that’s the reason. The