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In the second stanza, her husband reveals what he sees out the window. He tells her the reason he did not see it before was because he was so used to the grave yard being there. It was almost like a habit for him to walk by the window and see it there. He even comments on the size, and the headstones, as if it were no big deal. He knows it is not the actual grave yard she is looking at, rather the "mound" where there child's body is. Before he can go on though, she tells him to stop. She tries to avoid the conversation by sliding down the stairs, and preparing herself to leave. Her husband asks her if he can talk about there deceased child, but she just tells him no. This whole stanza shows that they have a lack of communication regarding the death of their child. When he just mentions the child she tells him "Don't, don't, don't, don't" (p 01). She tried to escape from the house and the conversation. She feels that neither he, nor any man can properly discuss their feelings and emotions about the death of their child. Instead of facing the child's death together, it seems as if Amy wants to go through the grieving process alone. .
The beginning of the third stanza has her husband begging her not to leave and discuss her grief with someone else "Amy! Don't go to someone else this time" (p 02). He wants her to open up and share her feelings with him. He also wants her to help him open up to her. In this stanza he also reveals that she is withdrawing from him not only emotionally but even sexually" I"d bind myself to keep hands off" (p 02). He does not understand why she is pulling away from him so much when at the time of need he should be the one that is there for her. .
Amy really lets her emotions escape her in the fourth stanza. She tells him "You can't because you don't know how." (p 03). She tells him how she watched him dig the grave for their son, and saw that he showed no emotion.
