American Literature / Unit 14 AML 1319 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Home Burial" and the Dramatic Narrative
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The idea
A husband and wife quarrel on a staircase after the death of their child, he unable to say the right thing and she unable to forgive his way of grieving. Almost the whole poem is dialogue in blank verse.
In practice
A staircase, and two ways of grieving.
Where people slip
Almost the whole poem is spoken aloud.
Your place on the trail
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