Frost's “Desert Places”: Inner Darkness
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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 P ....
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.... 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 weeds as his only companions, creates a lasting picture in the mind of the reader, of a man just beginning to reveal his inner “darkness”.
As the second stanza begins, the speaker has reached the borderline of the quickly darkening woods, and it seems as though he has paused in his walking, as if to ....
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Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
