When examining the works of Robert Frost the reader can see the use of meaningless things to prove that nothing in meaningless like in the poem "Desert Places". In "Desert Places", a mine realizes the loneliness of a snowy field and also within himself. The theme of life's choices being everything is also very obvious in such poems like "The Road Less Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". "The Road Less Taken" is a man looking back on the roads he has taken in his life.
             "Desert Places" uses the snow-covered field as a symbol for loneliness and meaninglessness. The tone of this poem is very bleak. The character in this poem is afraid of himself and his emptiness. He is a very round character. He realizes that the snowy field and its animals will not get in his way and that he must track on. This is shown by line 13, "They cannot scare me with their empty spaces". The narrator, using first person, seems to welcome death because of his extreme loneliness. This is very similar to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
             "Stopping by the woods on a Snowy Evening", demonstrates a dedicated person's commitment to life. The narrator is a dynamic character as well. The narrator makes the realization the he must continue living, much like "Desert Places". This character is not afraid of the strange. The horse, "Gives his harmless bells a shake" to show that it was strange to stop without a farmhouse near (line 9). This could symbolize the narrator as a rebel. This poems view of death is that death may come but he says, "And miles to go before I sleep" meaning that he must finish his life before he sleeps or accepts death (line 15). Another symbol of death could be the darkness. It is the darkest night of the year. It is almost like in the prayer "yea though I walk through the valley of
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