Robert Frost's Acquainted With The Night

Much like people in today's world Robert Frost struggled to fit into society and cope with his struggles in a sane way. If you were to look at all of his accomplishments and awards you wouldn’t think he was depressed but critics and his poems prove otherwise. As you read any of Frost’s poems even his famous ones, they will show his mental struggles or life struggles. In his poem Acquainted with the night Frost writes “I have walked down the saddest city lane” (Frost). Frost had many struggles in his life including his wife's death, daughters insanity and sons suicide which may all be explained through the meaning of his poems. The pain Frost felt seemed to never end even in is most accomplishing moments such as speaking at JFK’s inauguration. The suffering Frost endured …show more content…
Using the background information of the life Frost went through you could guess he is talking about marriage, money, jobs, sickness, and the abandonment of his father. As a kid his dad was a drunk and abusive which lead to the start of his mental illness. Each life step Frost would take added more pressure from constantly being sick, not succeeding right away as a writer and the death of his family members. All of this pressure was put into words, then displayed on paper as famous poems. Since Frost did not have his first big break until he was in his 40’s, this lead to all of the feelings to be built up. If he were to have been famous when the illness first started he would not have sounded so dark to his readers. Since this was not the case it lead to almost an annoying pattern saying the same things over and over. There really is no way to prove Frost’s motives through his poems but there is a very good chance doctors who major in these illnesses can diagnose Frost with depression. This is just one way Frost’s state of mental health influenced the way he wrote. Other than just writing there is