Acquainted With The Night
The writer of the poem, Acquainted With The Night, Robert Frost has an outstanding contribution in the fields of lyric poetry and dramatic narrative poetry during his lifetime. Frost struggle from lots of hardship and unfortunate experiences during his life; therefore, Frost always expresses his sorrow, loneliness and sadness through writing. The world in Frost’s eye is complicated because he regards the world as a mixture of good and evil. Some of his poetry describe the beauty of the nature and appreciate the nature. However, some works of Frost criticize the ability of the nature to harm the human beings. No matter what kind of poetry Frost writes, he is able to simulate his readers to consider deeply about the …show more content…
In the first line of the poem, the speaker announces directly that he has been one acquainted with the night. The word “night” is the key word in this poem, and most people will associate the night with fear and death. However, it is difficult to define what the “night” means for the speaker at the beginning. In this stanza, the narrator walks in the rain and see the city light. The narrator wanders in the night, feeling that he is isolated from the world despite he is in the city. The rhyme in the first stanza is obvious because the narrator starts five lines with the same pattern “I have”. Frost uses the first person perspective in order to emphasize the narrator’s loneliness. The word “night” and “light” are end rhyme, which presents a strong rhythm. Also, the word “light”, which symbolizes warm and hope, contrasts to the night, but the light seems to warm the heart of the …show more content…
The reason why the speaker stops is that he images the cry as a voice which calls him back. A hope of being understood rises at the end of the third stanza, but the hope breaks soon because the cry is neither to call the speaker back nor say goodbye to him. The speaker feels that no one in the city can comfort his heart, and the night is the only thing that accompanies him. Frost uses some figurative language in the forth stanza that when the speaker looks up to the sky, he compares the full moon to “One luminary clock”. The clock against the sky declares that the time is neither wrong nor right because the speaker is acquainted with the night, even though the hands of the clock point to a morning time, he still feel like he is at night. At that moment, the speaker not only accepts the night but also enjoys the night. The last line of the poem is the repetition of the first line, which mentions again that the speaker is acquainted with the night and strengths the theme of the poem. The moon brightens the night, which means that the time witnesses how the speaker grow up in the night and accept the
The writer of the poem, Acquainted With The Night, Robert Frost has an outstanding contribution in the fields of lyric poetry and dramatic narrative poetry during his lifetime. Frost struggle from lots of hardship and unfortunate experiences during his life; therefore, Frost always expresses his sorrow, loneliness and sadness through writing. The world in Frost’s eye is complicated because he regards the world as a mixture of good and evil. Some of his poetry describe the beauty of the nature and appreciate the nature. However, some works of Frost criticize the ability of the nature to harm the human beings. No matter what kind of poetry Frost writes, he is able to simulate his readers to consider deeply about the …show more content…
In the first line of the poem, the speaker announces directly that he has been one acquainted with the night. The word “night” is the key word in this poem, and most people will associate the night with fear and death. However, it is difficult to define what the “night” means for the speaker at the beginning. In this stanza, the narrator walks in the rain and see the city light. The narrator wanders in the night, feeling that he is isolated from the world despite he is in the city. The rhyme in the first stanza is obvious because the narrator starts five lines with the same pattern “I have”. Frost uses the first person perspective in order to emphasize the narrator’s loneliness. The word “night” and “light” are end rhyme, which presents a strong rhythm. Also, the word “light”, which symbolizes warm and hope, contrasts to the night, but the light seems to warm the heart of the …show more content…
The reason why the speaker stops is that he images the cry as a voice which calls him back. A hope of being understood rises at the end of the third stanza, but the hope breaks soon because the cry is neither to call the speaker back nor say goodbye to him. The speaker feels that no one in the city can comfort his heart, and the night is the only thing that accompanies him. Frost uses some figurative language in the forth stanza that when the speaker looks up to the sky, he compares the full moon to “One luminary clock”. The clock against the sky declares that the time is neither wrong nor right because the speaker is acquainted with the night, even though the hands of the clock point to a morning time, he still feel like he is at night. At that moment, the speaker not only accepts the night but also enjoys the night. The last line of the poem is the repetition of the first line, which mentions again that the speaker is acquainted with the night and strengths the theme of the poem. The moon brightens the night, which means that the time witnesses how the speaker grow up in the night and accept the