"Desert Places" by Robert Frost
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What is the meaning that Frost is trying to convey in the poem? What is the purpose of the line," but a few weeds and stubble showing last?" What connotation does benighted have in this poem? What does is the meaning of the final stanza and how does Frost achieve it?
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"Desert Places" by Robert Frost
Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.
The woods around it have it--it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.
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.
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on ...
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