Desert Places
Robert Frost * Track #3 On A Further Range
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Desert Places by Robert Frost
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Frost reflects of the nature of loneliness and emptiness– first in the falling snow, then in the almost infinite emptiness of space. The poem returns to terra firma, though, for the most profound kind of emptiness: that found in one’s own “desert places”.
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Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.
The woods around it have it - it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.
And lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less -
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
WIth no expression, nothing to express.
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
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Who wrote Desert Places's ?
Desert Places was written by Robert Frost.