Compare And Contrast Desert Places And The Road Not Taken

Born in San Francisco, California, Robert Frost, an American poet, was one of the most established poets of the 20th century. Frost is praised for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American informal speech with poems packed full of ambiguity and irony. Just at the age of twenty, Frost published his first poem ever, “My Butterfly” that appeared in the New York newspaper The Independent. He won many awards such as four Pulitzer Prizes and the Congressional Gold Medal due to his superior poetic writing abilities. Many of his poems, such as Desert Places and The Road Not Taken, have similar themes, patterns, and same intended audiences.
The four stanza poem Desert Places is about Frosts’ sad emotions of looking at an empty field covered in snow, which is a metaphor of his own

He was well known for having such deep and metaphoric writings, which almost always had a life lesson or moral. Many times the poems were a self-depiction of what was happening in the head of Robert Frost. The two poems Desert Places and The Road Not Taken both fall under self-depiction by using metaphorical techniques that relate to Frost. They also both establish particularly the same theme throughout each of the poems. The themes of each poems differ a little due to the fact that one is about taking a path in life that is not the most popular path and still living successfully. The other being about a man who is depressed and scared of an empty place in his heart/brain, but still prevailed through thick and thin. The poems both are fixed on the fact that no matter the circumstances people can still come out on top. He stresses the important parts of the poem by rhyming, which puts emphasis on certain words so that the reader will make the connection emotionally in their own head. These are reasons as to why Robert Frost is still talked about today as an American poet hall of