ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’Desert Places ’ was composed by Robert Frost (1874-1963) in 1933, while he was suffering a series of illnesses and struggling with bouts of depression. Frost claims that he wrote the poem straight off ‘without fumbling a sentence’, creating a lasting impression of spiritual bleakness.

Detailed explanation-2: -’Desert Places’ by Robert Frost is a dark poem that uses a snowstorm to depict universal human loneliness and the inevitable return of depression. ‘Desert Places’ is a four stanza poem that is separated into sets of four lines, known as quatrains.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stanza One But a few weeds and stubble showing last.” In the first refrain of the sonnet, the speaker portrays two things that are falling. The “Snow” and the “night” are, in an unexpected way, both tumbling down onto the land. He accentuates, through redundancy, the way that the night is going ahead “fast, oh fast”.

Detailed explanation-4: -Line 1: “falling, ” “falling fast, ” “fast” Line 2: “field” Line 3: “smooth, ” “snow” Line 9: “lonely, ” “loneliness” Line 10: “lonely, ” “less” Line 11: “blanker, ” “benighted” Line 12: “no, ” “expression, ” “nothing, ” “express” Line 13: “scare, ” “spaces” More items