Acquainted With The Night Analysis Essay

Robert Frost is remembered as the famous poet, scholar, and author to many acclaimed poems such as “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, and of course, “Acquainted With the Night”. Knowing Robert Frost as a person can give us a much better view of Robert Frost, the poet. The life of such a celebrated author wasn’t exactly always a party. Beginning at a young age Frost began to know the misfortunes of death when his father died of tuberculosis, forcing the entire family to relocate from California to Massachusetts. While living in Massachusetts Frost attended Lawrence High School, graduating in 1892. And then in 1894 Frost published his first success “My Butterfly, an Elegy”. He married his high school sweetheart …show more content…
Loneliness is the major symbol throughout the poem; the setting of the poem is on the city streets but there is no one around except for the watchman on the street and far away cry. In line 10 it shows that the speaker is hoping that someone is calling for him, he even stops walking to listen but he knows that no one is missing him. Another symbol of loneliness is in line 5 when the speaker passes the watchman (who really wouldn’t be the most comforting person on a lonely night), but he doesn’t make eye contact as if he does not want to express his emotions. The personification of the moon in line 12 could also be a symbol when the moon offers some light into the darkness, but it doesn’t cure his depression, saying the moon “proclaims” the time is “neither wrong nor right” which doesn’t satisfy something the speaker is searching for. The moon is also a symbol for the speaker’s loneliness, because of its “unearthly” distance; the image of the moon is created to be sad and isolated like the speaker. Yet the moon proffers this luminary symbol of hope, or of a clock that has the promise of the next