Acquainted With The Night And Robert Frost Compare And Contrast

The tone of the speaker in "Desert Places" is opposite of "Stopping by Woods", the speaker is much more bothered by his emotions and portrays a deep dark depressing mood. As the snow throws its blanket of whiteness over everything, to the speaker, it is a feeling of numbness. "The loneliness includes me unawares" (line 9). The speaker has lost his passion for life and is also in denial about feeling alone. He is at a stage where he just does not care about too much and he is feeling a bit paranoid. "They cannot scare me with their empty spaces" (line 13). He is saying who cares how I feel; I do not need anyone else. "I have in me so much nearer home/ To scare myself with my own desert places" (line 15-16). The speaker was starting to realize that he had shut himself off to the world. He recognized that this winter place was like his life. He had let depression and loneliness creep in and totally take over like the snow that had crept up on the woods and covered it. If he continues to let these feelings run

is saying, and Frosts personal pain that he is suffering from that he ingrains into this poem. The

In the poem, “Acquainted with the Night”, Robert Frost speaks of wandering the city at night. He speaks of the night like a friend, but in reality he is friendless. Through his use of hyperboles and imagery, the author provides an in-depth look of what he feels and experiences at night.

In Robert Frost's “Acquainted with the Night” it portrayed a life that was brimming with despair caused by isolation. Maybe because Frost was suffering with his own personal accounts, and he is known to have had a very depressing life, because he had so many close relatives that has passed and it left him feeling lonely and detached. Robert Frost exemplifies how familiar he is with the nights bringing a dark and lonely feeling. He is very aware of the night and he has a very particular way of describing the setting, various symbols, and an exceptional way to develop this poem. This poem uses symbols such as the rain, the darkness and quietness of the night, the watchman, and the moon to show how depressed he was because he was so isolated.

The four sections of Robert Frost’s poem “Acquainted with the Night” expresses the speaker’s personal effect from depression. It was inferred that Frost was in fact the speaker and he is alluding to his personal life though his writings as way to channel all his grief. It is also understood by the reader that the author is reminiscing his feelings and experiences with his struggle of depression in this poem. The poem begins with “I” and continues with that development in the beginning of each section.

Therefore, in the second stanza “Too dark in the woods for a bird,” (line 5), he uses this imagery to express that even birds cannot live in the woods because of how much darkness is present. Birds singing resemble happiness, and the woods and its darkness are showing two scenes contradicting each other, showing in some way the deeper meaning beyond the literal one. Another symbol used by Frost was light, symbolizing hope: “The last of the light of the sun.” In this line he gives a clue to the reader expressing how even though it was dark, there could still be a chance for light to come in those woods for some hope and maybe

There are several likenesses and differences in these poems. They each have their own meaning; each represent a separate thing and each tell a different story. However, they are all indicative of Frost’s love of the outdoors, his true enjoyment of nature and his wistfulness at growing old. He seems to look back at youth with a sad longing.

The poem has a balanced rhythm and the first line rhymes with the third and final line of each stanza until the final stanza. The final stanza completes the circle and repeats the initial line of the poem. In addition to the rhyming within each stanza, Frost wrote this poem to consistently throughout where each stanza had exactly ten syllables and every other word was stressed while reading. This poem also uses night as a metaphor. Throughout the poem, darkness is represented by the night. It doesn’t represent death, but it is more of a metaphor for depression or sadness. The poem tells of a man that is walking alone at night through a city. The narration of the poem not only uses night as a metaphor, it also uses imagery and symbolism to enhance the depth of the poem. In the poem, the man hears a cry “far away”(Frost 503) and he is said to have “outwalked the city light.”(Frost 503) This symbolism is used to depict the man as being alone and not around anything. He has walked away from all the lights of the city and is in the darkness of the night. No one else is around and people would have a hard time hearing him from where he is. When the man passed a watchman, he “dropped my eyes.”(Frost 503) He seemed shy and distant and refused to make any sort of contact with other individuals. In addition to the darkness, Frost writes that it is raining as the man is walking alone at night. The poet uses the dark setting, the

“Acquainted with the Night”  has a deeper meaning which is meant to represent depression. The beginning of the poem (lines three and, four) support the deeper meaning  because it states “I have walked out in rain - and back in rain./ I have outwalked the furthest city light.”. These lines mean that the speaker has disclosed himself from society, and feels like after trying to fix his life, but the result is unchangeable, and remains horrible. The middle of the poem shows the speaker trying to grasp at reconnection to society, but fails

The speakers in Frost’s poems often find themselves captivated by darkness. It is not unusual to read about one of the speakers walking during the night, but sometimes they seem to stop inexplicably. Such is the case in the poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.” The speaker finds himself in a familiar area that he has presumably been to before, but on this evening, he decides to stop so he can, “Watch his (the owner’s) woods fill up with snow” (Lathem 224). In his essay, Frost, and Emerson: Voice and Vision, Alvan S. Ryan writes, “there is the attractions, the seductive and dark beauty of the woods filling up with snow”

It begins at midnight with a speaker who seems to be tired and weak. It seems as though the speaker one can assume to be a man has stayed up this late pondering on some thought. Suddenly he hears a noise come from his door, but merely dismisses it to be nothing serious. This stanza in particular sets the mood of the entire poem it allows the reader to understand already that this poem will not be one of happiness or joy, but rather one of bleakness and disparity.

     Frost?s poem delves deeper into the being and essence of life with his second set of lines. The first line states, ?Her early leaf?s a flower.? After the budding and sprouting, which is the birth of nature, is growth into a flower. This is the moment where noon turns to evening, where childhood turns into maturity, and where spring turns into summer. At this very moment is the ripe and prime age of things. The young flower stands straight up and basks in the sun, the now mature teenager runs playfully in the light, and the day and sunlight peak before descending ever so quickly into dusk. The second line of the second set states, ?But only so an hour,? which makes clear that yet again time is passing by and that a beginning will inevitably have an end.

“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.

“The Road Not Taken” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” are just two of many very famous poems, written by none other than Robert Frost. Robert Frost is a poet that is well known for his poetic contributions to nature, as well as his award winning poems. His poetic ability and knowledge make him an extraordinary author. His past; including schooling, family, and the era in which he wrote influenced nearly all of his poems in some way. This very famous poet contributed to the modernism era, had a family and an interesting life story, and a unique poetic style as well.

Robert Frost is perhaps one of America's best poets of his generation. His vivid images of nature capture the minds of readers. His poems appear to be simple, but if you look into them there is a lot of insight. Robert Frost spoke at John F. Kennedy's inauguration. He is the only poet to have had the opportunity to speak at a presidential inauguration. Through his poetry people learn that Robert Frost is a complicated and intellectual man who has a place in many American hearts. (Richards P.10)