Analysis of a poem by Robert Frost

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Analyze one of the following poems by Robert Frost: “Come In” or “Desert Places” (both attached).
In your analysis, pay particular attention to the elements of poetry we have studied, such as rhyme, rhythm, diction, syntax, enjambment, personification, imagery (simile, metaphor, symbol),etc. how do these elements contribute to the poem’s structure, and to its meaning?

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They are not a guide to what the paper should include, although you may have a better idea of what you want to say after posing the questions to yourself. Not all questions are relevant to both poems. Do not organize your paper according to these questions, and do not submit a series answers to them.
1- Read the poem several times. Make sure you know what all the words mean. What are your first impressions? Make a note of them. Make a note of anything you think is unusual.
2- Who is the speaker in the poem? What kind of person is s/he?
3- Who is the speaker addressing?
4- What is the situation?
5- What is the setting in time (hour, season, year,etc.)?
6- What is the setting in place (indoors or outside, city or country)?
7- What is the poem about (theme)?
8- What is the tone of the poem? How is it achieved?
9- Paraphrase the poem.
10- What are the events of the poem?
11- What is the poem’s structure?
12- Think about the diction of the poem. Consider denotations and connotations.
13- Identify all images – similes, metaphors, symbols- and explain their appropriateness.
14- Discuss significant examples of sound patterning, such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance and consonance. Are they adapted to the meaning?
15- Does the poem have a regular meter (rhythm)? What is it? Are there any variations?
16- What are the functions of the features you have noticed in the poem? Do they reinforce a single purpose?
17- Now go back to question no. 1. Do you agree with your own first impressions? How do they differ from what you think now? How do the things that you singled out as unusual strike you now? (Are they still unusual, or do they fit into a pattern?)
The first poem is:
Come In \ Robert Frost
As I came to the edge of the woods,
Thrush music -- hark!
Now if it was dusk outside,
Inside it was dark.
Too dark in the woods for a bird
By sleight of wing
To better its perch for the night,
Though it still could sing.
The last of the light of the sun
That had died in the west
Still lived for one song more
In a thrush's breast.
Far in the pillared dark
Thrush music went --
Almost like a call to come in
To the dark and lament.
But no, I was out for stars;
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked;
And I hadn't been.
Robert Frost
The second is:
Desert Places \ Robert Frost
Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.
The woods around it have it--it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.
And lonely as it is that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less--
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.