Acquainted With The Night Analysis

The purpose of “Acquainted with the Night” is to show the loneliness one can have going through depression. Almost feeling like everything is sad, even objects or things that don't have feelings. This poem illustrates someone sad and lonely one night walking down the street “unwilling to explain.” The title of this poem holds significance because “acquainted” means to know someone, whereas this piece is about not having anyone and being lonely. On the other hand, “ Out, Out--” was written to portray a story about a young boy cutting wood with his father when his sister calls him in for dinner, he gets excited and jumps up and down and almost cuts his hand off completely with a buzz saw. When the doctor came to help and amputate his hand, the
The speaker of this poem is very forsaken. We have no idea why he walks around at night but when he passes the watchman it’s almost like he has tunnel vision not even bothering to acknowledge him. Maybe he is walking home work or a party, it’s hard to tell. All we really can see about this man, by the voice of this poem is that he is very unhappy. This poem was written in first person using “I.” The voice in OO is powerful and Frost used a bunch of personification to grab the reader's attention. One example he used was “as if to prove saws knew what supper meant, leaped out at the boy’s hand.” He made the gave the saw human characteristics as if he actually leaped out at the hand. In AWTN, Frost used repetition of “I have” which added a ton of emphasis to it. I believe that his main idea in this poem was to emphasize that the man was “acquainted” with the night. The title of this is only used in the beginning and end of the poem to replace “I have been one” so whenever you hear the expression you can perceive it differently. OO used imagery and alliteration which added emphasis to it. One example of imagery would be “ the buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard.” It was almost like you could see the saw