A person’s view of their surroundings can display their emotions and attitude towards life. In Robert Frost’s “Desert Places”, the narrator is standing in the middle of an empty and deserted field. It is snowing and the field is almost looks like a white sheet of snow except for some stubble that is showing through the grass. Around the field is a forest, which is full of animals that are hiding from the cold. The narrator feels lonely for unknown reasons. Robert Frost uses the scenery in “Desert Places” to describe the emotions of an abandoned and isolated person.
Frost uses two types of imagery, visual and auditory, to convey the narrator’s sense of loneliness. In the first stanza, Frost uses visual imagery. He first tells the reader that since “the night is falling fast”, it is almost nighttime (1). He describes the setting, telling the reader that there is “snow falling” into “a field” which is covering “the ground” “in snow” except for “a few weeds and stubble”(1-4). This view of the imagery helps the reader understand the narrator’s loneliness. Instead of using words that convey the loneliness and emotions of the narrator, he instead describes the field to reflect the his emotions. In the second stanza, Frost describes the scenery surrounding the field in the same way. He explains that there are “woods around” the field (5). Inside the forest there is “animals [that] are smothered in their lairs” (6). The description of the forest also connects to how lonely the narrator is. Even the animals that are usually roaming around this field are hiding and nowhere to be seen. It shows how deserted the field is and how deserted the narrator feels. Frost also uses Auditory imagery to describe the scenery. Frost doesn’t exactly ...
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...ds the field is caused by his emotions of isolation and abandonment. This feeling is so overwhelming to the narrator that he cannot look at life as the beautiful thing it is, instead he looks at it with an impassive tone.
The title “Desert Places” represents the narrator’s feelings of loneliness and his attitude towards life. Like the field was deserted and ownerless, the narrator feels deserted and isolated from his old friends and family. The theme of the poem was the emotions of a lonely person. The scenery, figurative language, and tone all contributed to making the reader try to feel this emotion that the narrator is feeling. Overall, the poem gives a deep insight of the emotions of a lonely or abandoned person. The average view of a lonely person would be depressed. However, this poem explains that sometimes a lonely person could have no emotions to express.
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In “Birches”, Robert Frost uses imagery and analogies as a way of conveying his message. Frost’s use of imagery and analogies are used in the themes of nature, analogies, and imagination. Frost uses imagery throughout the poem to create a vivid image of how he imagines the Birches to be. His use of comparisons enables the reader to view the Birches in numerous perspectives. His use of imagery and metaphors are appealing because they are pragmatic, and create a clear image for the reader.
Stevens’ message reveals itself as the poem unravels: there is never one true understanding of a reality outside of one’s interpretation. The author suggests that one can’t help but transfer their own beliefs and ideas onto what they see; in this case, the “listener” is projecting an impression of misery onto the scenery that lies before him. For example, the first two stanzas are filled with decorative language that serves to describe the visual image of a winter landscape. Using phrases such as “crusted with snow” (3) instead of “covered” with snow provides an evocative illustration of the snow’s roughness. Other phrases such as “shagged with ice” (5) and “rough in the distant glitter/Of the January sun” (6-7) force the reader to experience the miserable portrayal of winter. These are not the descriptions of an observer who “beholds nothing that is not there” (14-15), but rather the objective, poetic appreciation for the snowy
Then in the last stanza Frost mentions woods again. Even though the narrator has a long way to go he always has enough time to stop and watch the small thing in nature in detail. This goes to show that Frost’s interest in nature is very large, and he portrays this through his characters.