In the poem "Desert Places" the speaker is a man who is traveling through the countryside on a beautiful winter evening. He is completely surrounded with feelings of loneliness. The speaker views a snow-covered field as a desert place. "A blanker whiteness of benighted snow/ With no expression, nothing to express." Whiteness and blankness are two key ideas in this poem. The white symbolizes open and empty spaces. The snow is a white blanket that covers up everything living. The blankness symbolizes the emptiness that the speaker feels. To him there is nothing

else around except for the unfeeling snow and his lonely thoughts.

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

A blanker whiteness of benighted snow

Some common words found in the essay are:
Evening Frost, Snowy Evening, Robert Frost, Frost Snow, stopping woods snowy, snowy evening, woods snowy evening, Woods Snowy, woods snowy, Stopping Woods, stopping woods, robert frost, miles sleep, loneliness includes unawares, woods lovely dark, lost enthusiasm, stop farmhouse near, loneliness includes, welcome solitude, farmhouse near, feeling numbness,
Approximate Word count = 1241
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)