How Does Robert Frost Use Figurative Language In Acquainted With The Night

In “Acquainted with the Night”, Robert Frost writes about what I assume to be a homeless man. He writes about the dejected life of this poor individual. Frost uses figurative language and a sullen tone in this poem about the homeless man. In line 4, Frost uses personification, “the saddest city lane”. A city lane can’t be sad, but he uses it to add despondency. In line 2, frost writes, “I have walked in rain-and back in rain”. He uses this repetition to express the fact that the character just stands out in the rain because he has nowhere to go. Frost creates a melancholic poem when the homeless man says that he is acquainted with the night. He is saying that the homeless man is isolated and depressed like the night and no one wants to be