An Analysis Of Robert Frost's 'Acquainted With The Night'

The poem "Acquainted with the night" by Robert Frost is about a man who is walking through a city at night. However, when analyzing the poetic devices used in the poem, such as the extended metaphors and symbolism, it becomes clear, that the poem is about the narrator's feeling and sense of isolation. The narrator is acquainted with the darkness of the soul as much as the night. Frost also uses personification to show how the poem has a human ability. Frost uses personification right away in line one with "I have been one acquainted with the night". In the last stanza, line one state, "proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right", as if the moon was a clock telling you the time of the night. Frost also uses symbolism, such as, "I have