Acquainted With The Night

Robert Frost's “Acquainted with the Night” portrays a life filled with depression due to isolation. Frost's personal experiences may have influenced the poem because he was known to have a sad life with many deaths in his family. This left him depressed and cut off from the world. The title gives insight into Frost’s bleak and lonesome world, where the darkness of night makes no impression on him. He uses a descriptive language with an array of different symbols in his poem “Acquainted with the Night”. The poem uses symbols like the rain, silence, and darkness which are things felt during night, the watchman, and the moon to demonstrate his depression and has a distinctive poetic form to stress the poem's tone.
The variety in weather, places, and time represent different feelings and symbols in a poem. In the lines “I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. / I have outwalked the furthest city light” (Frost 2-3) it is
He uses a brusque rime rhyme scheme, the stanzas rhyme being in a aba bcb cdc dad aa format. By connecting the stanzas, the rhyme scheme helps the poem transition. The reader reads the last line the same as the above, which connects each stanza to the next. The speaker seems unable to stop the wheel and is fixated with his frustration with life. He is acquainted with the darkness of night and remains powerless to escape it. Through symbolism and poetic style, Robert Frost describes his circumstances very clearly. The speaker's frustrations are seen throughout the poem with the reader able to sense his emotions through Frost’s illustration of night. There is only a streetlight and the moon to light his way but means that all is not lost. There is hope for him if he focuses on the light and not the darkness. He could speak to the watchman if he lifted his eyes, acknowledged him, and began a conversation. His life didn't need to be in this vicious cycle. He became engulfed and without escape of his