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THE TITLE I immediately thought about an empty place “…where no human race is” (l.14), just like the speaker defined it. A desert place that isolated from the rest of the civilization because “…lonely as it is that loneliness/will be more lonely ere it will be less” (ll.9-10). The “desert places” (the title) associated with silence, darkness “…and the night falling fast, ho, fast”(l.1), a huge emptiness and even death “all animals are smothered in their lairs” (l.6). THE THEME I think that the speaker talks about “desert places” (in the title) with more then one meaning. First of all the title is in plural - “places”. Secondly, the speaker in one hand tells us about an isolated “field” (l.2), so naturally I thought about this desert place as a place here on earth. I thought about untaken care field, because of the “few weeds…showing last” (l.4). The image that I got at the very beginning was some empty, far away place that humans have not been there for a very long time. However, at the end of the poem, he unexpectedly tells us “I have in me so much nearer home/to scare me with my own desert places” (l.15-16). The desert place that he keeps wri