Acquainted With The Night By Robert Frost
It is a poem of connect! A connect with all those who have experienced the dark, onerous, and dreary moments of life! Frost wrote the poem in terza rima (a verse stanza consisting of three-rhyming-sentences), to link his own depressive journey to hell. The poem is set in the urban environment, exemplifying utter depression in the middle of city! This is allegory can be applied to us all who live in cities of concrete and mortar . We can effortlessly relate to the difficulties and desolation, which come as a package-deal of living is such high-rise cities! I personally gauge, the first line of the poem to be the most powerful line - “I have been one acquainted with the night” He refers to himself as “one” using the word “acquainted” exhibiting no formal affection or propensity to know but is just simply aware of, and uses a profound word with several implications – “night”. The word “night” divulges the difficult, dark, oner...