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Acquainted With The Night Diction

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Unfortunately, he also makes it clear that communication is enormously hard to achieve. For instance, in “Home Burial”, Robert Frost describes two terrible events; the death of a child and the destruction of a marriage. The death of the child is tragic, but inability of the husband and wife to communicate with each other and express their grief about the loss is what ultimately destroys their marriage. Robert Frost highlights this inability to communicate by writing the poem in free verse dialogue; each character speaks clearly to the reader, but neither is able to understand the other. Robert Frost explores a similar theme in “Acquainted with the Night”, in which the narrator is unable to pull himself out of his depression because he cannot bring …show more content…

In each of these cases, the reader is left with the knowledge that communication could have saved the characters from their isolation. Yet, each character is unwilling to take the steps needed to create a relationship with another person, which causes each character to be doomed. Certainly an essential element of Frost's style is his choice of words or diction. He uses everyday words you would use in conversation, this makes his poetry natural in its wording. He uses words that most people can understand, this also makes his poetry seem practical and ordinary. Frost writes his sentences with meter and rhythm to enhance their exquisiteness. The style of his writing is simple, using diction. There is nothing complicated about the structure of Frost's poems; they seem to be simple translations of everyday events into poetry. This simple way of writing is an effect of living in New England, where Frost lived for some

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