"Desert Places" uses the snow-covered field as a symbol for loneliness and meaninglessness. The tone of this poem is very bleak. The character in this poem is afraid of himself and his emptiness. He is a very round character. He realizes that the snowy field and its animals will not get in his way and that he mus

t track on. This is shown by line 13, "They cannot scare me with their empty spaces". The narrator, using first person, seems to welcome death because of his extreme loneliness. This is very similar to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

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Approximate Word count = 545
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)