Part one of term paper
C.K. Williams said, “poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wished to slide by,” and in “Desert Places” Robert Frost makes the reader not only visualize the cause of these emotions, but feel them also. Throughout the four stanzas of “Desert Places,” Frost describes a solitary walk thr ...

Part two of term paper
... the poem with “snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast” indicating that darkness has fallen quickly and unexpectedly upon him. As the speaker ponders “going past” into the field, the reader is able to see the landscape darkening around “the ground that is almost smoothed in snow” (line 3), and picture the inky blackness as it covers everything except for a “few weeds and stubble showing last” (line 4). The image of him standing alone on the barren snowy landscape with w ...