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

The combination of the words “going past” is an oxymoron because the

I think that the speaker refers here to the whole nature in general: the

Some topics in this essay:
, RHYMES SCHEMA, “desert places”, “field” l2, “desert places” title, places” title, human race, animals smothered lairs”, smothered lairs” l6, desert places” l15-16, death “all animals, “all animals, animals smothered, smothered lairs”, lairs” l6, refers nature, places” l15-16,