Desert Places

Robert Frost builds the power in the poem by using the primary symbol of snow and its related color, white, and then employing the clear contrast of night falling, which is echoed at the end with...

The previous post was quite accurate in suggesting that the entire poem has a strongly negative feel to it. I think the third stanza contains the most imagery that seems negative to me. Much of...

Imagery is the use of words to convey sensory experience. It can be visual (describing something one can see), auditory (describing something one can hear), tactile (describing something one can...

The title of Robert Frost’s poem “Desert Places” is particularly intriguing. We normally think of “desert places” as vast areas of dry sand baked under the blistering heat of the sun. We think of...

The opening lines of Robert Frost’s poem “Desert Places” quickly establish the setting of the poem, while the falling snow affects different things in the first three stanzas of the work. In lines...

In "Desert Places," by Robert Frost, there is a significant change in the rhyming words used in the last stanza of the poem. Even though the same pattern is kept with the first, second, and fourth...

In "Desert Places," Robert Frost takes a scene from nature and uses it as a springboard for a philosophical idea. The poem begins with a description of a field filling up with snow at night:...

The use of the term "desert places" in Robert Frost's poem of that title uses the term in the classical sense in which the term desert meant an area that was uninhabited, or what would, in modern...

The speaker of the poem "Desert Places" laments his deep sense of loneliness and lack of a sense of belonging. He uses imagery of comparison and contrast to bring home the loneliness he feels. The...

In the poem 'Desert Places' by Robert Frost we have a lovely description in the first stanza. It is not only the snow falling, but the night too, and speed is referenced - it is happening quickly....

In approaching the analysis of poem, the most important step is in identifying the controlling metaphor. This metaphor is the deadness and spiritlessness of the world that is covered with snow in...

Robert Frost’s poem “Desert Places” in many ways exemplifies the dark, brooding, somewhat gloomy side of Frost’s poetic character – an aspect of his work that is evident in many poems. And Frost,...

Robert Frost's poem "Desert Places" is a deceptively simple short poem. In the first four-line stanza, the speaker passes by a snow-covered field. Though the snow covers the field, the speaker...

Robert Frost's "Desert Places" is one of his bleakest poems. The first stanza is a description of white snow falling at night covering a field. This combination of white against a black expanse...

I do no know that this poem is particularly autobiographical or that it refers to a particular person at all. It is primarily written for the reader to identify with, if a common chord is struck....

This is an interesting poem, where Frost, probably on a walk, looks at a snow-covered field, and how everything his hidden and smothered by the snow. He makes a comparison between this, and...