Robert Frost's
The two poems written by Robert Frost, "Desert Places" and "Old Man's Winter Night," have the common theme of loneliness. In "Desert Places" the speaker is not walking through woods, he is only passing by and momentarily glancing at this field filling with snow and the trees that surround this field will soon be all that is left due to the snows continuous falling. When he sees this field with snow, he uses it as a device to compare it to his own life and how it will soon be all over and how when he passes on there will be nothing left. The speaker talks of walking through a snowy wood feeling "too absent-spirited to count" as he envisions the other animals of the forest warm in their dens. Frost also uses a strong contrast, such as "with no expression, nothing to express" and "lonely as it is that loneliness/ Will be more lonely ere it will be less." In both cases, the speaker compares two similar word forms while adding a slightly different meaning. The forest has no expression......
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