Compare And Contrast We Grow Accustomed To The Night
Dickinson and Frost expresses their views on darkness and night in the poems, “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” and “Acquainted with the Night”. Although the two poems have a similar subject and imagery, there are differences in the tones and views.
The subject of the two poems is the struggles in life, which is symbolized as night and darkness. In both poems, there is this walk or journey that the narrators take, most likely a metaphor for life. There seems to be a similar choice of words to depict life, Dickinson used the words, “step” and “road”, and Frost used the words, “walk”, “lane” and “passed”. In the expedition that the narrators take in the poems, there are conflicts. In Dickinson’s poem, the road consists of “uncertain steps” that
The subject of the two poems is the struggles in life, which is symbolized as night and darkness. In both poems, there is this walk or journey that the narrators take, most likely a metaphor for life. There seems to be a similar choice of words to depict life, Dickinson used the words, “step” and “road”, and Frost used the words, “walk”, “lane” and “passed”. In the expedition that the narrators take in the poems, there are conflicts. In Dickinson’s poem, the road consists of “uncertain steps” that