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Compare the relationships and emotions in the following poems Home Burial, Long outmatch and My Grandmother.I am going to compare the relationships and emotions in the followingpoems Home Burial, Long Distance and My Grandmother.In all three of these poems, there is a common theme. They are all todo with the breakdown in communication and relationships betweenfamily and have characters, which are dealing with grief.Each of the poems tackles these themes in different ways.The beginning poem Home Burial is a dramatic narrative poem in which weare presented with a couple whose marriage is in crisis, It exploreshow the different responses of a husband and a wife of the death oftheir child has had a damaging affect on their relationship.The poem Long Distance is written by a son reflecting on theexperience of his fathers grief of the loss of his wife.In the final poem, the poet writes an account of the life and death ofher grandmother and how she responds to it. The wife from Home Burial is stood upon the twinge of their stairslooking out at the mound under where her child is buried.What is it you see? She in her place refused him any help.This shows the inadequacy of communication between them, as strugglesto find the reasons for her behaviour she wont let him past herbarrier, give him any help or any insight to her problem. It alsodisplays that she feels as though he couldnt possibly understand whyshe is so dull because she sees him as blind and unable to relate towhat she is feeling. It also suggests a feeling of bitterness towardsher husband.Her face changed from terrified to dull.This leads us to believe that there is no spark of love between themanymore and that she has grown a sense of hatred towards him.Amy doesnt want her husband to speak of the loss of his child becauseshe believes that her husband doesnt have any respect for their childas he dug the operose for it. Cant a man speak of his own child hes lost?Not youI feel that the women has misundersto od the mans actions and that byburying his child is his way of steeping himself in his grief, offorcing it into his muscles of his arms and his back, of feeling thedirt on his clothes.She wants to get out of the house and to get out of having thisconversation with him. This clear up of situation has happened before asthe man says,