Robert Frosts Desert Places and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening :: Robert Frost Poet Poems Desert Woods Essays

Robert Frosts Desert Places and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningRobert Frost takes our imaginations to a journey through winter withhis two poems Desert Places and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Frostcomes from a New England background and these two poems smooth the beautifulscenery that is present in that part of the country. Even though these poemsboth have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feelingof depressing loneliness and the other a feeling of welcome solitude. They showhow the same setting can have totally different imp make believes on a person depending ontheir mindset at the time. These poems are both made up of candid stanzas anddiction but they are non simple poems.In the poem Desert Places the speaker is a man who is travelingthrough the countryside on a beautiful winter eventing. He is completely touch with feelings of loneliness. The speaker views a hundred covered fieldas a deserted place. A blanker whiteness of benighted sno w/ With no pression,nothing to express. Whiteness and blankness are two key ideas in this poem.The white sybolizes open and empty spaces. The snow is a white blanket thatcovers up everything living. The blankness sybolizes the emptyness that thespeaker feels. To him in that respect is nothing else around except for the unfeeling snowand his lonely thoughts.The speaker in this poem is jealous of the woods. The woods around ithave it - it is theirs. The woods symbolizes state and society. They havesomething that belongs to them, something to feel a part of. The woods has itsplace in nature and it is also a part of a bigger picture. The speaker is soalone inside that he feels that he is not a part of anything. Nature has a wayof bringing all of her parts together to act as one. Even the animals are apart of this wintery scene. All animals are smothered in their lairs,/ I amtoo absent-spirited to count. The snow throws its blanket of whiteness overeverything and to him it is a feelin g of numbness.The loneliness includes me unawares. The speaker has lost hisenthusiasm for life. He can not express his feelings considerably because of thisfeeling of numbness. The speaker is also in denial about feeling alone. He isat a stage where he just does not pity about too much and he is feeling a bitparanoid. They cannot scare me with their empty space. He is saying who careshow I feel, I do not need anyone else.