He uses the word lonely three times so the reader definitely knows he is alone. The speaker also mentions that he will become even more alone "before" or "before" he becomes less alone. The field is now described as being “a whiter whiteness of night snow.” At this point in the poem, it is assumed that the snow has grown and now covers even the “weeds and stubble.” The field has been cleared of its geological marks and is now a blank canvas. Without its grasses and hills to give the field an identity, it becomes nothing. Frost does this because he feels like he has lost his sense of identity. Benighted literally means to be overtaken by darkness. Thus, by describing the snow as being shrouded in night, Frost returns to the idea that the snow symbolizes darkness and its smothering of the earth and itself. In the fourth stanza, the speaker uses third person pronouns to personify his fears. But “they” don’t scare him with “their” empty spaces. The emptiness of the field or the dark emptiness of space does not frighten the speaker because he already has more emptiness within him. In fact, the speaker is so full of emptiness and darkness that he scares himself. Frost says his thoughts might actually become terrified. Frost uses feminine rhyme to humorous effect by rhyming spaces/race is/places. He insinuates that his fears are a