In the poem “Desert Places,” Frost uses nature to express the thoughts and feelings of the speaker. The speaker is sitting in his home looking outside into a dark snowy night. There is absolutely nothing living that is visible. It is empty and lonely outside. The speaker refers to animals in their lairs hidden away from the loneliness. It seems the speaker is envious of these animals because they can escape their desert places but he can’t escape his. The entire poem makes it seem that he fears being outside alone or off in space with nothing around. The last two lines of the poem however give the poem a whole new meaning. “The speaker generalizes about the scene: its loneliness will only intensify before it decreases,”(Kemp). All of the places that the speaker speaks of throughout the poem do not bother him. The last two lines formulate the thesis of the entire poem. The speaker doesn’t worry about the places outside because he has his own empty lonely places that he fears. The speaker is referring to the distress the mind causes in life. Often people are put into difficult times or situation and the mind makes one worry or stress more than one should. When he says home the speaker is referring to his own mind. It is a much more dangerous place than the woods or outer space. The poem is a fixed form poem, and consists of four quatrains with an aaba rhyme scheme.
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