Desert Places- Robert Frost

This week I decided rather than rave about how brilliant a poem is, I'm going to write about how much I hate it. Robert Frost- all around neutral kinda guy. I mean, sure he's a credited poet that we read from our plastic elementary chairs, but has he ever written anything of substance?? Robert Frost plays it safe. I honestly think he writes just to be read. Take this poem, for instance. Loneliness is one of the most common emotions! You can't go wrong that. It's exactly like The Kite Runner- everyone just loved it, but I saw how the author just knew how to spin every human emotion into a dramatic plot and it would be an automatic success. It's the exact same here with this poem. The words Frost writes are actually rather nice. He adds nice touches with the symbolism of the woods and delicate metaphors such as, "all animals are smothered in their lairs." The two lines I really enjoyed from this poem are in the third stanza: "And lonely as it is that loneliness will be more lonely ere it will be less." I think I love those lines because I honestly don't understand them. They just sound so nice! I feel like the rest of the poem just failed and these two lines could stand alone. Maybe he was trying to say the more lonely we are the less loneliness bothers us. I just can't figure out an interpretation that seems to suit. Other than those two lines I think the symbolism of the desert was boring and predicable, the quatrain format merely standard, and found no superb brilliance to this piece whatsoever.