No One Grieves the Same Death is the end of a life. When someone dies that is close to us, we feel a sense of overwhelming grief. Not everyone express their grief in the same way especially men and women. Men are usually the strong ones and do not show their emotions outwardly. Then there are the women who show their emotions by crying and having outburst of anger. Robert Frost illustrates in his poem “Home Burial” how even though the husband and wife are both grieving for the death of their child, they each handle their grief in different ways. “Home Burial” revolves around a husband and wife who are at opposition over how to deal with the death of their child. The entire scene in the poem takes place on a staircase. At the beginning, the wife, Amy, is at the top of the stairs and her husband is at the bottom. By the end of the poem, he is at the top of the stairs and she is at the bottom. The opposite’s ends of the staircase represent the conflicting ways they deal with their grief. Amy expresses her grief with Amy is suffering from extreme sorrow over the loss of her first born child and is unable to stop grieving. Her grief causes her to lash out at her husband because she feels he is being insensitive and unaffected by the death of their child. Amy first begins to feel as if her husband’s grief was not as great as hers when she saw him “making the gravel leap and leap in air”. Amy feels that if her husband had any feelings at all that he would not have been able to dig their own child’s grave. She no longer knows this man who can dig their child’s grave and then come in and “talk about everyday concerns.” She does not understand how he can make small talk about things when their child has just died. As he talks, she thinks “he still had “the fresh earth from your own baby’s grave. “ The husband in “Home Burial is