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Desert Places

Desert Places. Robert Frost. By Sarah Cavanagh, Elicia Webber, Corinne Bygrave & Beatriz Azevedo. ‘Desert Places’. ‘ aaba ’ Rhyming scheme. Four equal stanzas. Themes of loss, isolation, loneliness and reflection.

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Desert Places

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  1. Desert Places Robert Frost By Sarah Cavanagh, Elicia Webber, Corinne Bygrave & Beatriz Azevedo

  2. ‘Desert Places’ • ‘aaba’ Rhyming scheme. • Four equal stanzas. • Themes of loss, isolation, loneliness and reflection. • A black and white contrast is created by the vision of the snow-covered field at night. • Connects to ‘Crossing the water’, ‘Mushrooms’ and ‘Stopping by woods on a snowy evening’.

  3. ‘Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast’ • Repetition. • Urgent feeling.

  4. ‘In a field I looked into going past’ • Reflection. • Time decisions.

  5. ‘And the ground almost covered in smooth snow’ • Description. • Purity. • Peaceful. • Memories.

  6. ‘But a few weeds and stubble showing last’ • Reminders of the past. • Isolation. • Forgotten. • Negativity.

  7. ‘The woods around it have it-it is theirs’ • Aggressive/possessive tone. • Claimed area.

  8. ‘All animals are smothered in their lairs’ • Negative imagery. • Sinister tone.

  9. ‘I am too absent-spirited to count;’ • Indicates to writers depression. • Writers feelings of isolation, loneliness and bleak thoughts of the world.

  10. ‘The loneliness includes me unawares’ • Links to depression. • Isolation theme. • Is unaware of his depression.

  11. ‘And lonely as it is that loneliness’ • Repetition. • Emotions revealed. • “L” sound being prolonged emphasises the loneliness and isolation.

  12. ‘Will be more lonely ere it will be less’ • It will be worse, before it gets better. • His depression.

  13. ‘A blanker whiteness of benighted snow’ • Loneliness and isolation. • Absence of colour?

  14. ‘With no expression, nothing to express’ • Growing sense of despair. • Repetition. • Negative tone.

  15. ‘They cannot scare with their empty spaces’ • Talks about the places that make him feel isolated. • Trying to give himself confidence?

  16. ‘Between stars-on stars where no human race is.” • Emphasises loneliness. • Doesn’t feel human, isolated from everyone else.

  17. ‘I have it in me so much nearer home ‘ • Acceptance? • Positive.

  18. ‘To scare myself with my own desert places’ • Referring to the title of the poem. • Accepting.

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