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A 5 page analysis of Robert Frost's poem "Desert Places," in which the writer explores the idea that Frost's poetry is antipathetic to the notion that the universe is inherently good or delightful or hospitable. The writer shows how this statement applies to "Desert Places," and then substantiates this by looking at "Out, Out-" and "Nothing Gold Can Stay." No additional sources cited.
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to our needs. This attitude can be seen in many of Frosts poems that present the natural world. Frost recognizes the beauty in nature, but it is a fierce beauty
that is not precisely antagonistic toward humanity, as merely indifferent, in the way that a tornado can be majestically beautiful, yet leave behind an indiscriminate path of destruction, hitting
some houses, sparing others. This perspective is particularly evident in Frosts poem, "Desert Places." Going past a field in winter, Frost sees a field covered by fallen snow.
While the typical person would simply appreciate the clean, white expanse, and move on, Frost also takes in the woods that surrounds the field - "the woods around it have
it-it is theirs,/ All animals are smothered in their lairs" (lines 5-6). As this indicates, Frost sees the field, not as a permanent change on the landscape created by human
endeavor, but merely a temporary victory against the ever-encroaching forest. To Frost, the barren field becomes a "desert," whose "loneliness" engulfs him and will be more so before it
becomes less (lines 8-10). Frost finds no meaning in this natural scene, the "blanket whiteness" has "nothing to express" (lines 11-12). In other words, unlike many of his
contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the last verse, Frost comments that the "empty spaces"
between the stars cannot frighten him - what frightens him is much closer to home. He scares himself with his "own desert places" (line 16). As this suggests
the last line of the pome incorporates the emptiness that Frost feels when looking at the snow-covered field into his own soul, where an analogous emptiness, a haunting loneliness,
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