essay 2
“Desert Places” and “Acquainted with the Night”
In these two short poems Robert Frost gives the reader a point of view in which someone is in when they are isolated from the world. He wants us to be able to do the same thing ourselves at one time, and observe how the rest of the world is while we are isolated. The characters in the poems are both on a journey by themselves and come to a point to where they realize they are isolated and can not seem to find anyone.
Both poems have the similar theme of being isolated and lonely from the world. The poem “Desert Places” tells of the narrator's sad feelings upon observing a snow-covered field. He says that “animals are smothered in their lairs” (Frost 6) which means that life around him is hidden away. This gives us a sense that he no longer around life, and seems to be isolating himself from everyone. In the third stanza, the word “lonely” is used three times. This is used to emphasize the amount of isolation the author is feeling. In “Acquainted with the Night” he narrator seems to be isolated and has walked beyond the city limits and along every city lane, but has never found anything to comfort him in his depression. His surroundings are all very distant, and, in the poem, he has no friends or family. In the third stanza Frost states, “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet, when far away an interrupted cry, came over houses from another street” (Frost 7-9), which tells us that since the author found out the cry was not for him, he gets more isolated and lonely knowing that no one is speaking to him.
Imagery is a great aspect of these two poems that help the readers understand the theme. In “Desert Places”, Frost
The setting of the poems is the one aspect that they both differ from. In “Desert Places”, the setting takes place in an open snow-covered field where no one seems to be found but the author. In “Acquainted with the Night” the setting takes place in a sad and lonely city on a
In these two short poems Robert Frost gives the reader a point of view in which someone is in when they are isolated from the world. He wants us to be able to do the same thing ourselves at one time, and observe how the rest of the world is while we are isolated. The characters in the poems are both on a journey by themselves and come to a point to where they realize they are isolated and can not seem to find anyone.
Both poems have the similar theme of being isolated and lonely from the world. The poem “Desert Places” tells of the narrator's sad feelings upon observing a snow-covered field. He says that “animals are smothered in their lairs” (Frost 6) which means that life around him is hidden away. This gives us a sense that he no longer around life, and seems to be isolating himself from everyone. In the third stanza, the word “lonely” is used three times. This is used to emphasize the amount of isolation the author is feeling. In “Acquainted with the Night” he narrator seems to be isolated and has walked beyond the city limits and along every city lane, but has never found anything to comfort him in his depression. His surroundings are all very distant, and, in the poem, he has no friends or family. In the third stanza Frost states, “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet, when far away an interrupted cry, came over houses from another street” (Frost 7-9), which tells us that since the author found out the cry was not for him, he gets more isolated and lonely knowing that no one is speaking to him.
Imagery is a great aspect of these two poems that help the readers understand the theme. In “Desert Places”, Frost
The setting of the poems is the one aspect that they both differ from. In “Desert Places”, the setting takes place in an open snow-covered field where no one seems to be found but the author. In “Acquainted with the Night” the setting takes place in a sad and lonely city on a