Loneliness can instill emptiness in a person unlike anything else in the world. In "Desert Places", Robert Frost attempts to describe his loneliness and the subsequent emptiness that it brings him.
Throughout the entirety of the poem, Frost creates numerous lonely scenes with which to compare his loneliness. In the first three stanzas, he describes environments overtaken by "benighted"(meaning "filled with darkness" snow. The snow has made the land devoid of life whether it be plant, animal, or human, creating a scene of utter loneliness. In the first two lines of the fourth stanza, Frost again describes another environment completely and utterly devoid of life: space.
However, he also admits that these lonely scenes do not scare him. The loneliness in his own "desert places" pains him infinitely more than that which is created by these lifeless environments. He is essentially saying that these lonely settings cannot compare to the emptiness that he feels inside himself every day.
-TB
Throughout the entirety of the poem, Frost creates numerous lonely scenes with which to compare his loneliness. In the first three stanzas, he describes environments overtaken by "benighted"(meaning "filled with darkness" snow. The snow has made the land devoid of life whether it be plant, animal, or human, creating a scene of utter loneliness. In the first two lines of the fourth stanza, Frost again describes another environment completely and utterly devoid of life: space.
However, he also admits that these lonely scenes do not scare him. The loneliness in his own "desert places" pains him infinitely more than that which is created by these lifeless environments. He is essentially saying that these lonely settings cannot compare to the emptiness that he feels inside himself every day.
-TB