Acquainted With The Night Poem Analysis

The poem, Acquainted With The Night, Robert Frost takes the readers on a journey into the gloomy side of the human soul. In a nutshell, it is a description of a short, boring night journey on foot via the streets of a city. However, taking a closer look at it reveals more than meets the eye. The narrator in the poem gives a detailed description of the loneliness he experiences as he traverses the isolated streets of the city at night. Throughout his walks that have seen him reach the limits of the city, and along all lanes in the city, he has failed to find anything that has comforted him as he is depressed. He even interacts with other people, such as the watchman, but he is not willing to reveal his depression as he believes anybody would not understand him. In one …show more content…
In this piece of art, Seon depicts a village in between two ridges that seems isolated from the rest of the world. The village is clustered with trees, and a dark smoke can be rising to the sky. The feeling that comes with looking at the painting is that of being miserable and isolated. The inhabitants have more than once felt in acquaintance to the world more than with the fellow villagers as little is seen other than smoke. Smoke can indicate that everyone is busy with their lives so much that they have no time to spend connecting with people, or there is something bad such as war taking place in the village. All in all, the audience is left with judging what might have taken place. The painting indicates some form of animosity that might be existing between the inhabitants or with the village and the villages far beyond ("Smoke Rising Up In The Lonely Village - Jeong Seon - Google Arts & Culture"). This resonates with when the narrator in Robert Frost’s poem suggests that the watchman may not be as friendly a person to talk to at