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Robert Frost - Desert Places

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

The woods around it have it—it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.

And lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less—
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

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Desert Places - Comments and Information

Poet: Robert Frost
Poem: Desert Places
Volume: A Further Range
Year: Published/Written in 1936

Comment 15 of 15, added on March 30th, 2008 at 3:28 PM.

haha. i love that first comment.
i am writing a five page response to this poem,and im just b.s.ing my way through it.
this poem sucks

it has a message: the message is to honor i tin your own soul and feel the despair he felt.

it is not ment to be put into any other words than those that frost used.

if you can't understand his message ur on crack i swear.

and i hate all english teachers that think that explicating a poem helps us understand it, when the author intended their writing to be enjoyed and interperated according to the listener, and enjyed.
not picked apart.



screw english courses.

kari from United States
Comment 14 of 15, added on August 5th, 2007 at 9:30 AM.

i seriously hate alllllllll of robert frosts poems!
ive been trying to research poems so i can do my essay on them and all i got was jack shit from u guys!
for real tho how can u guys even cum up with any meanings of any poem let alone robert's poems of absolute shit!
anyway thanx for the help guys....NOT!
i guess im gna go and fail my essay!

billy from Greece
Comment 13 of 15, added on April 23rd, 2007 at 3:59 PM.

This poem has twenty verses and 4 stanzas. It rhymes which are a: fast, past, and last, c: theirs, lairs, and unawares, e: loneliness, less, and express, and f: spaces and places. He also use alliteration such as "Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast:. His tone towards this poem is sadness, loneliness, and quiet.

Tanyarat from United States

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