Desert Places- Poem Responce 17

Robert Frost, in Desert Places really captures the feeling of isolationism. He compares the frozen snowy field to how he is feeling. The words "snow," "night," and "falling," really make the reader feel the emptiness. The second stanza shows with out a doubt that Frost is feeling alone. He talks about the animals in the surrounding forest, and how he is to absent minded to count them. He is to alone to care. It is sad! The last line of stanza 2 includes the word loneliness, which transitions into the third stanza:

And lonely as it is that loneliness

Will be more lonely ere it will be less—

A blanker whiteness of benighted snow

With no expression, nothing to express.

This is another sad stanza. He is so depressed in this stanza. Whiteness of benighted snow. Nothing to express. This is so hopeless in this part of the poem. I really like the re-occurrence of the word lonely. In the last stanza, Frost talks about how the empty spaces won't scare him. HE has created them in his mind. We are left with the sense that he will overcome this. I really like this poem because it is kind of an insight in to his mind in a depressed place. I am feeling depressed right now (not that MS. White is my therapist and im seeking advice) because I fouled out last night, hurt my ankle and we lost. Tangent, sorry. But I can relate to the kind of cold feeling, then thinking I need to overcome it. Robert Frost is a good poet!