The poem Desert Places by Robert Frost?

Question

Can some one give me their insight on this poem. I am writing a paper on the "Reader-Response Criticism" and I don't know where to start.

Answer 1

Frost speaks of his own loneliness and how he feels empty within. . He's expressing to the world what it is like to love and suffer its loss. He speaks of carrying such a burden and his desire for all the pain to go away; an emptiness and the disparity all humans feel. Even if you are surrounded by people, places, things you can still be lonely because  life does not allow us  to share our inner selves beyond the surface.   The snow shows the blanket of loneliness the whole word shares. The desert is his own personal loneliness... like being alone in a lonely world.