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Robert Frost has been very successful in conveying his deep message through beauty and nature explaining the complexities of human life and simply giving their solution in his writings. He can be studied at different levels of understandings, be it a child or a mature adult, without changing the beauty of his words. The words his chooses are magical because they change their meaning with reader's understanding. In other words, the mood of the reader changes the meaning of every word and poem.

In his poem "Home Burial", the grief and sorrow that a couple feels and experiences after they had lost their child is illustrated. The poem is a conversation between the man and the woman, who are arguing with each other over the death of their baby despite the fact that they grieve and felt sorrow over the death of the young child. The unnamed couple in this poem has lost a baby to death. The mother grieves openly, externalizing her sorrow and it could be said that she has never recovered from this loss; bereaved parents never forget, but most people in this position gradually work out a way of dealing with their grief, and go on with their lives. This the young mother cannot do. The baby is buried in the family graveyard, which is visible from an upstairs window of their house. Day after day she goes to the stairway window looking out upon the nearby family plot. The sight of the raw mound where her child lies buried reopens her grief.