Hired Man

Death of a Hired Man is one of Frost's longer works. All but a few lines are dialog between Mary and her husband Warren about Silas, an old itenerant worker who comes to their farm when he needs money. Only this time Mary senses that there is something different. Silas looks old and unwell, and is rambling on about things that happened on the farm years before. She's pleading with Warren to let Silas stay that this is home for him, even though he has a rich brother that is a banker who lives nearby. This is where the greatest point of impact is. It's in these for line that haunt:

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there,

They have to take you in."

"I should have called it

Something you somehow haven't to deserve."

The meaning of home lies somewhere in these words for all of us.