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How Does Robert Frost Use Juxtaposition In Desert Places

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A place of warm days and chilly nights, filled with scorching afternoon, a desert can occupy all these strengths, but rarely has snow. Robert Frost’s “Desert Places” elaborates on the times in life where a place is filled with something opposite to what is thought would be there. Frost uses the story of the narrator’s struggles to illustrate the contradictions in life through juxtaposing nature and common words. Light and dark continuously play a concurrent theme throughout “Desert Places” by Robert Frost. Frost uses parallelism through nature to portray the juxtaposition through out the poem. The first line of the poem “snow falling and night falling” (Frost 1) sets a repetitious feel, but Frost implies more to this phrase. The “snow”(1) typically describes something white a pure. Also, snow often creates an atmosphere that is quiet and soft. Contrarily, “night” (1) comes with the ending of the day. Some bugs or animals come out because they are nocturnal. The “night” described by frost has many layers of context that the parallelism through the structure …show more content…

Frost develops tough through the texture and normal characteristics of snow. While the “snow” falls “fast” (1), the snow also covers the ground “smooth in snow” (3) to not only portray imagery, but also create a sense of feel. The “smooth” (3) that frost describes is a common texture or feeling that most people know. Frost then juxtaposes “weeds and stubble” (4) from “smooth in snow” (3) to create a shift in touch. The word choice switches form something that does not have any bumps or raises in the skin, to something rough. Since the “smooth” (3) is compared the “snow” (3) the reader can imply that the smooth snow, again remains pure, but the “stubble” (4) can act as a connection to a mane. Frost uses texture to create juxtaposition that can be touched or acquired by a sense of

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