Acquainted With The Night

Michael Midence
“Acquainted with the Night”: Robert Frost on Darkness In Robert Frost's poem "Acquainted with the Night" Frost has left this poem up for many interpretations. The poem begins “I have been one acquainted with the night,” it means, basically, that he has met, or has some knowledge of, the night. It is a neutral way to say something. You'd say you were acquainted with someone if you had met them, but weren't friends with them. We can read that maybe the individual is restless and has something on his or her mind. While the speaker of "Acquainted with the Night" is acquainted with the night, his surroundings are all very distant, and, in the poem, he has no friends or family.
Since this poem can be interpreted many ways I will follow the text as a guideline. The total amount of lines present in this poem is fourteen, which makes this a sonnet. "Acquainted with the Night" uses many metaphors, however in a literal sense is a simple story to follow. The speaker tends to use simple words with complex metaphors. The rhyme scheme of “Acquainted with the Night” goes as follows:
Someone is yelling something, but the speaker can't quite make it out, it's interrupted. The city seems big and disconnected here. The streets are far away, noises have to travel over lots of houses to make it anywhere, and once they've made it, they don't even sound right anymore. The cry from the third stanza was in the fourth stanza “not to call me back,” Now we find out why the speaker was so interested in this interrupted cry, other than that it's a dark, creepy sound on a dark, creepy night. The cry was not for him, though he wished it was, calling him back from wherever he came from, or yelling a forgotten goodbye. The speaker then looks up to the sky and interprets it as an “unearthly height”. We get the sense of being really far away and