Advanced Placement Literature SAMPLE 2
The sonnet “Acquainted With The Night” by Robert Frost was written in the time closer to our own and through describing a lonely walk at midnight, alludes to the sorrowness and darkness of heart of a man who has suffered significant loss and is trying to reconcile with the tragedy at heart.
As the poem starts and ends with the sentence mentioning being “acquainted with the night”, it leads the audience to visualize a peaceful yet eerily quiet night, and the persona seems to be the only one looking down “the saddest city lane” aside from the watchmen, who was contemplating and questioning the persona’s existence on the streets. Although the quiet night seems understandable I that it provides moments …show more content…
As if the “interrupted cry” has also interrupted the persona’s seemingly plain monologue, the sentences become less uniform in structure, directing the persona’s gaze towards the “houses from another street”. The volta on line ten also shifted the point of view of the persona, from focusing on himself/herself to focusing on the sound (???? NOT CLEAR) of the cry, and reveals more of his thoughts as he comes to realize that the cry was not directed towards him/her. As the poem end with the only two-line stanza at the end it breaks the constant three line rhythm and creates an image of the persona cutting short on his monologue as an effort to curb his strengthening grieve and emotions that filled his …show more content…
The cry was not his loved one talking t hi, or passing on last words “to call me back” or “say good bye”. The persona then, out of desperation to forget his sorrow, diverted his gaze to the moon, “one luminary clock against the sky”, an unbiased and untouchable observer who has perhapes witnessed thousand of heartbreaks or celebrations, but merely ILLEGIBLE to quietly remind people of the past time, and the long journey of fate in the time to come. As this unbiased and calm observer has helped the persona to again recollect himself and continue walking, he again resumed to tell his story in the previous monotone structure, with the small amount of emotion that he was willing to let on to the people around him listening.
As if the persona was unable to continue his story in need to control himself, the last stanza came to a halt after two lines, ending with a simple reiteration of the action of the persona as been performing.
As the persona struggle with the death of a loved one, the sonnet moved away from the popular theme of love to obvious and joyful love, to the pain when losing the dear love in ones life, and the fact that no matter how much time has passed, how many nights one has spent, walking and becoming “acquainted with the night”, the wound of losing someone will alway leave
The sonnet “Acquainted With The Night” by Robert Frost was written in the time closer to our own and through describing a lonely walk at midnight, alludes to the sorrowness and darkness of heart of a man who has suffered significant loss and is trying to reconcile with the tragedy at heart.
As the poem starts and ends with the sentence mentioning being “acquainted with the night”, it leads the audience to visualize a peaceful yet eerily quiet night, and the persona seems to be the only one looking down “the saddest city lane” aside from the watchmen, who was contemplating and questioning the persona’s existence on the streets. Although the quiet night seems understandable I that it provides moments …show more content…
As if the “interrupted cry” has also interrupted the persona’s seemingly plain monologue, the sentences become less uniform in structure, directing the persona’s gaze towards the “houses from another street”. The volta on line ten also shifted the point of view of the persona, from focusing on himself/herself to focusing on the sound (???? NOT CLEAR) of the cry, and reveals more of his thoughts as he comes to realize that the cry was not directed towards him/her. As the poem end with the only two-line stanza at the end it breaks the constant three line rhythm and creates an image of the persona cutting short on his monologue as an effort to curb his strengthening grieve and emotions that filled his …show more content…
The cry was not his loved one talking t hi, or passing on last words “to call me back” or “say good bye”. The persona then, out of desperation to forget his sorrow, diverted his gaze to the moon, “one luminary clock against the sky”, an unbiased and untouchable observer who has perhapes witnessed thousand of heartbreaks or celebrations, but merely ILLEGIBLE to quietly remind people of the past time, and the long journey of fate in the time to come. As this unbiased and calm observer has helped the persona to again recollect himself and continue walking, he again resumed to tell his story in the previous monotone structure, with the small amount of emotion that he was willing to let on to the people around him listening.
As if the persona was unable to continue his story in need to control himself, the last stanza came to a halt after two lines, ending with a simple reiteration of the action of the persona as been performing.
As the persona struggle with the death of a loved one, the sonnet moved away from the popular theme of love to obvious and joyful love, to the pain when losing the dear love in ones life, and the fact that no matter how much time has passed, how many nights one has spent, walking and becoming “acquainted with the night”, the wound of losing someone will alway leave