Question

In form. Home Burial by Robert Frost is a:

• A. Dramatic Monologue
• B. Dramatic Lyric
• C. Dramatic irony
• D. Melodrama

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Dramatic Lyric

Home Burial by Robert Frost is a dramatic lyric or dramatic narrative poem written in blank verse.

• It features a conversation between two characters, a grieving wife and her husband, making it a dramatic dialogue.

• It follows unrhymed iambic pentameter, characteristic of blank verse.

• The poem tells a story with deep emotional conflict, making it a narrative poem as well.

• However, it focuses intensely on psychological depth and emotions, giving it a lyric quality.