Comparing Frost Stopping by the Woods on a Snowing Evening and Desert Places
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The Similarities of Two Dark Winter Evenings
Although Robert Frost's two poems "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Desert Places" were written 13 years apart, they are both very similar. Both poems' setting, tone, and ultimate meaning are exactly the same. They both take place in the woods on a dark, snowy evening; both have a solemn tone; and in both the speaker is discussing his own death.
Setting is "the time and place of a literary work" (G28). In "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening" the setting is established in the very first line: "Whose woods these are I think I know" (l. 1). This line states that the speaker is looking at a wooded area. Line 4, "To watch his woods fill up with snow", shows the reader that it is snowing. The final element of setting is established in line 8 which states "The darkest evening of the year". This line shows that it's a dark night...