Robert Frost's Acquainted With The Night

     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.

Robert Frost takes our imagination to a journey through wintertime with 
his two poems "Desert Places" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". These two poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in the snow covered woods and awakens us to new feelings. Even though these poems both have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feeling of depressing loneliness and the other a feeling of welcome solitude. They show how the same setting can have totally different impacts on a person depending on 
their mindset at the time. These poems are both made up of simple stanzas and diction but they are not straightforward poems.

Frost uses a multitude of poetic devices, including metaphors, irony, symbolism, hyperbole, and personification “Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. to vividly reinforce the desolation in the mind and the surroundings of the speaker. The uncertainty of the time in the end is a reflection of the uncertainty in the duration of isolation that the speaker would have to continue to endure. In conclusion, this poem displays the transition into night figuratively as the author experiences a broken heart. I have been one acquainted with the night.” (V,2 ). This is a beautiful and dark poem that describes the somber emotions that an individual endures after a separation. This poem can be relatable to anyone as we all have experienced some type of sorrow. Hopefully after experiencing something of this nature we can see the bright lights after being acquainted with the

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.

What makes camping in the woods a peaceful and serene experience yet also creates anxiety when walking city streets at night? What do the woods and the city have in common? Though both are compelling in different ways, they hold more similarities than you may realize. Earnest Hemingway illustrates how tranquil escaping to the isolation of the woods can be in his short story “Big Two-Hearted River”, while Robert Frost demonstrates the fear of isolation in his poem “Acquainted with the Night”. While both works show traumatized characters seeking solace through isolation, both present differing realities of what is found there: for Nick there is peace and reconciliation, and for Frost’s speaker there is only the terror of

Through his clever use of several poetic devices, Frost benefitedfrom the intensity, focus and interestof the reader. Each literary deviceworked in a concerted way to imprint on the reader,the image of a profound sense of darkness and sadness that had overcome the speaker. These emotions are likely whatcaused the speakerto take these long walks throughthe darkest of nights. Having read to the last line of the poem, it’s as if the reader had also become “acquainted with the night” and was in perfect synchronicity with

In the poem Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost which is written about depression and how he worries about it everyday, as the genre is sad as it goes into the category of the realism era.

“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost dramatizes the conflict between the speaker and the purposeless darkness in which he wanders. In this poem, the speaker uses the present perfect tense, implying that his actions in the poem's narrative have been going on for long and even unknown amount of time, increasing the credibility of his acquaintance with the night. After beginning with the statement that he has “been one acquainted with the night,” the speaker continues to elaborate to his audience, perhaps a friend, about his acquaintance. He first explains his actions in general: “walked” and “outwalked,” “looked” down city lanes, and “passed by” the watchman. Then the speaker slows down the narrative by expanding his statements and explaining

“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.

On the surface, the poem "Birches" by Robert Frost is simply about a man who would like to believe that birch trees are bent from young boys swinging on them, despite the evidence that it is merely a result of the ice-storms. Even with this knowledge he prefers the idea of the boys swinging from the trees because he was a birch swinger years ago and continuously dreams of returning and experiencing those pleasant memories once again. From a more explored and analytical point of view, the birch trees symbolize life and serves as the speaker 's temporary channel of escape from the world and its harsh realities. The speaker uses his imagination to return to his innocent childhood. He hopes to relieve stress and prepare to face life and

Frost’s use of alliteration, personification, and imagery definitely conveyed the speaker’s attitude towards the woods. The reader believes Frost wrote about the woods to show how peaceful and calming it is in an isolated place such as the woods. Most people live in crowded neighborhoods or over-populated places, but living in a secluded area decreases the stress of others outside their household. Because of how isolated the woods are, they can worry about themselves compared to worrying and stressing on the outside

The speaker of 'Frost at Midnight' displays a characteristic reverence for nature – possibly the essential concern of Romanticism. In pious tones, he describes the "far other scenes" where his son will pass his boyhood "By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags/ Of ancient mountain" (lines 55-56). But it is not simply by the use of such grandiose language describing the topography of nature that nature is represented in the poem. By recalling his own

The discursive blank-verse meditation "Birches" does not center on a continuously encountered and revealing nature scene; rather, it builds a mosaic of thoughts from fragments of memory and fantasy. Its vividness and genial, bittersweet speculation help make it one of Frost's most popular poems, and because its shifts of metaphor and tone invite varying interpretation it has also received much critical discussion, not always admiring. The poem moves back and forth between two visual perspectives: birch trees as bent by boys' playful swinging and by ice storms, the thematic interweaving being somewhat puzzling. The birches bent "across the lines of straighter darker trees" subtly introduce the theme of

Coleridge often explores the relationship between humanity and nature in his poetry. These two groups are unified in his conversation poem “Frost at Midnight”, and allow the reader into his internal thoughts. He meditates on comparisons by pairing the magical appearance of frost on the windowpane to how his thoughts are in flux and reflux. Coleridge shows how the thinking of the mind mirrors nature and how repeating patterns reveal universal aspects of poetry, thoughts, and nature.

Robert Frost’s experiences through his life drives him to write “Birches,” and later leads him to a successful career filled with many popular and well known poems. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California (Gerber). Frost’s parents are William Prescott Frost Jr. and and Isabelle Moodie Frost (Gerber). The Frost family consisted of Robert, his parents, and his sister Jeanie. Mr. Frost died in 1885 from tuberculosis, which created Mrs. Frost to take her children to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where they could live with their grandparents (Gerber). Robert and Jeanie proceeded to go to high school there, where he not only met Elinor White, his love, but he also fell as a top student in his class when he graduated in 1892 (Gerber). Not only did Robert fall in love with