Next Few Lines Frost example essay topic

Desert Places In the poem Desert Places by Robert Frost, the author describes the scenery in which he came across with. It was on a winter day, and the day was turning into a night. As he went across a field, he saw that the ground was almost all covered in snow. But then he noticed a few weeds and stubble on the ground. On the first line, Frost talks about how the night falling fast. This is referring to how fast Frost felt concerning time, which went by fast in real life.

At the end of the line, Frost added two simple words which seems to add a sense of desperation, or even a sense of hopelessness, to the whole idea of time going by fast. The words "oh, fast" seem to show that although Frost did not like it, but there was nothing he could do or change about it. Time will keep going at the same pace whether he likes it or not. In the next few lines Frost describes how everything he sees are covered in snow. Snow here could represent dullness or loneliness. Frost feels that everything or everyone around him are filled with loneliness, no excitement and everything seems to be the same.

Line four in the poem says that "But a few weeds and stubble showing last". Here it tells us that although dullness, emptiness, or loneliness covered almost everything around him, he could still see some life or excitement somewhere in between. Yet this small bits of life and excitement were nothing compared to the overwhelming emptiness. In the next couple of lines, Frost seems to have forgotten all about the weeds and stubble he saw and put his attention back to the empty, snow covered surroundings. He then looks at the woods near the field and that too have been covered in snow. He also mentioned that all the animals are covered in snow in their lairs.

These two lines again emphasize how Frost feels. He knows that there are live around him, yet those life are also filled with emptiness. Soon he even realized that not only the surroundings that were filled with loneliness, but Frost himself are also in it as line eight says, "The loneliness includes me unawares". Last stanza of the poem talks about the emptiness that is so overwhelming that even when Frost looks up to the sky, all that he could see or feel is still loneliness and emptiness. But then Frost mentions that the emptiness or loneliness that he fears the most isn't the one that exist on the outside or his surroundings, but the one he truly fears is the one that's on the inside as stated in the last two line of the poem "I have it in me so much nearer home. To scare myself with my own desert places".

Frost uses desert places as a symbol for loneliness and emptiness because we perceive a desert to be a place with no excitement. It's lifeless, empty, and dull.