Acquainted With The Night Poetic Devices

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The poems in this section are about the hardships of life and the problems that people have to face, yet there is an undertone of hope in them too, the problems may not be solved, but the poems show that there is a sense of faith in human resilience.

The experience of darkness is both individual and universal. Within Emily Dickinson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night,” the speakers engage in an understanding of darkness and night as much greater than themselves. Every individual has an experience of the isolation of the night, as chronicled in Frost’s poem, yet it is a global experience that everyone must face, on which Dickinson’s poem elaborates. Through the use of rhythm, point of view, imagery, and mood, each poet makes clear the fact that there is no single darkness that is too difficult to overcome.

The two poems “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Acquainted with the Night” written by Robert Frost are very similar to each other because of the simplistic form of language used and the uses of metaphors. When we first read the poem, it looks like an ordinary poem but once we go in depth and understand the meaning, it becomes so much more. Both of the poem has a very dark, gloomy and lonely setting with a really mysterious tone. There are different metaphors used in each poem to symbolize death; “Sleep” in “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Night” in “Acquainted with the Night.” The characters in the two poem are both in a journey and has come

The horrible accounts of the holocaust are vividly captured by Elie Wiesel in Night, an award winning work by a Holocaust survivor. It describes his time in the Holocaust and helps the reader fully understand the pain he went through. In the text, Elie continuously mentions how he is losing his faith to god. It is evident that he has nearly, if not completely lost his faith during the events of the holocaust. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel’s faith changes because of the absence of God, the dehumanization of the prisoners, and all of the death that surrounds him.

In the first poem called We grow accustomed to the Dark, the speaker finds her way through the dark night, as her eyes adjust to the darkness, she notices there’s “a road,” and specs of light where her curiosity grows. She notices things you cannot see in the daylight like the specs of stars and the bright moon. But before she was aware of her

I went Into Elie Wiesel 's Night having read the book in various stages in my life. It seems to follow me through my schooling years. In junior high I read it in standard English class, just like any other book I would have read that year. In high school I read it for a project I was creating on World War II, looking at it from a more historical approach. Being a firsthand account of concentration camps made it a reliable source of historical information. But during previous times when I was reading, I never thought to take a look at it from a theological point of view. Doing so this time really opened my eyes to things and themes I hadn 't noticed during previous readings.

Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel about his time with the Nazis during the holocaust. It encompasses the time span of life in his village before when all the residents heard whispers and rumors of the Germans that they barely believed, to being freed at last by the Red Army. Throughout this time we watch Wiesel transform from a man who adamantly believes in his faith to one who believes that the Nazis stole his God from him. Ellie struggles to to maintain his faith and finally gives it up for good.

     William Stafford’s "Traveling through the dark" is beautifully written poem that expresses one of life’s most challenging aspects. It is the story of a man’s solitary struggle to deal with a tragic event that he encounters.

“Poetry is the graffiti written in the heart of everyone,” states poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Poetry is something that stays with you everywhere, and is a tool that many are able to use to explain their feelings about certain topics- like night. In the two poems Night Luck by Heidi Mordhorst and Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost, they explain their feelings about the topic night. Frost and Mordhorst have fairly significant difference in perspective of the night time. Acquainted with the Night is a poem where Frost explains things that have happened in his life.

In the first poem , “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark,” the speaker is saying, concerning darkness, that you should always find our way through hard situations. For example, the wanderer compares brave people to

The structure of “Acquainted With the Night” parallels the speaker walking into the dark. The structure is predictable, and flows. The stanzas are set in terza rima, a rhyme scheme that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme. This rhyme scheme utilizes a chain rhyme with a pattern of A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D. This rhyme scheme incorporates looking toward the future while echoing the past.

With “Night,” the eighth poem and first of the second section, darkness descends, bringing with it a series of scenes horrifying and pathetic.

“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost dramatizes the conflict that the speaker experiences with the outside world, which has rejected him, or perhaps which he has rejected. The poem is composed of fourteen lines and seven sentences, all of which begin with “I have.” Frost’s first and last line, “I have been one acquainted with the night,” emphasizes what it means for the speaker to be “acquainted with the night” (line 1; 14). The speaker describes his walk in the night as journey, in which he has “walked out of rain—and back in rain” and “outwalked the furthest city light” (line 2-3). Through the depiction of the changing weather conditions, Frost signifies the passage of time, perhaps indicating that the narrator has been on his journey for a lengthy period of time and has traveled through many cities. Furthermore, the imagery of the rain at night creates a forlorn atmosphere in the poem.

They should glare and glow “like meteors” and not like dim candles. In the last stanza, the speaker refers to his ailing father, on his deathbed and asks him to weep fiercely, as this serves as both a blessing and a curse for him, for his heartbreaking death, and if possible a heroic survival. The poem ends with the same two lines being repeated, thus the poet instructing his father to not submit to death but “rave” and rant and fight it every step of the way.