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The Dark Impact of “Desert Places”
Everyone is impacted one way or another by everything that has happened or has been said. ... Another impact can be words. Words have a very strong impact on most people. Every page, line or word can impact readers of novels, and poetry. Poet, Robert Frost, had a tendency to impact his readers in a dark way. In Robert Frost’s poem “Desert Places,” Frost creates a dark mood to capture and impact the reader with deep feelings of hopelessness, insignificance, deadness, loneliness, homelessness and darkness.
The narrator of “Desert Places” portrays his lack of motivation for life through his hopeless outlook he exhibits while witnessing the events occurring in the poem. The first line in “Desert Places” is the introduction to a poem of pure hopelessness. ... As the Speaker analyzes the field and woods as he passes, he becomes “[…] hypnotized by the snow swirl that he doesn’t count as a consciousness anymore […]”(“On ‘Desert’” 7). ...
The poem “Desert Places” dramatically illustrates the insignificance of humans in merely one or two lines of the poem. ... The Speaker goes on to say that, “I have it in me so much nearer home / To scare myself with my own desert places” (Frost). ... Thomas Hansen writes that:
The colloquial ‘scare’ thinly masks the terror of this poem—not the terror that ripples through us when we vividly realize and almost physically apprehend the limitless emptiness of outer space, but the even greater tenor that washes over us when we realize that the ultimate desert places lie within us (“On ‘Fire’”).
Approximate Word count = 1281
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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