Acquainted With The Night Metaphors

Through the presentation of an extended metaphor from the beginning to the end of a text, a theme is expressed and deepened in Night. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, is a Jew and a Holocaust survivor. He was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. In Night, he documents his experience during the Holocaust. He talks about his experiences in the camps and relationships he has with others.

In Robert Frost’s poem, “Acquainted with the Night”, there is a sense of melancholic loneliness of which the speaker seems to be content with. The reader sees a glimpse of his perpetual depression on a habitual night time walk. He starts by saying he is “one acquainted with the night” (line 1). He feels a sort of companionship with this time of day. Ironically enough, while most everyone else is asleep and quiet, he feels a sense of belonging. The speaker personifies the city through parallels of his own lonely depression.

In Emily Dickenson's "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark," and in Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night," the poets use imagery of darkness. The two poems share much in common in terms of structure, theme, imagery, and motif. Both poems are five stanzas long: brief and poignant. The central concepts of being "accustomed" to something, and being "acquainted" with something convey a sense of familiarity. However, there are core differences in the ways Dickenson and Frost craft their poems. Although both Dickenson and Frost write about darkness, they do so with different points of view, imagery, and structure.

At times it is easy for our minds to wander, to think about one of the most universal question: Are people fundamentally the same or different? In the novel, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time written by Mark Haddon, this question is answered. In the novel, the main character, Christopher Boone, a boy diagnosed with Asperger’s takes his real steps into becoming his own person was when he decided he was going to write a book about a murder of his neighbour’s dog, Wellington. Christopher’s father, Ed, his only caregiver has lied to him about his mother’s death which was also a challenge for Christopher because after he had found out that his mother was still alive he went to find her, in London, but he has never travelled alone,

“Poetry is the graffiti written in the heart of everyone,” states poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Poetry is something that stays with you everywhere, and is a tool that many are able to use to explain their feelings about certain topics- like night. In the two poems Night Luck by Heidi Mordhorst and Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost, they explain their feelings about the topic night. Frost and Mordhorst have fairly significant difference in perspective of the night time. Acquainted with the Night is a poem where Frost explains things that have happened in his life.

Seeing the World in Different Ways Most people may see the world the same way. Christopher Boone, the main character and narrator in the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, definitely has his own very unique perspective, but Christopher has something most do not which makes him and his perspective so unique. Christopher has ASD, which causes him to see the world a completely different way than most. Christopher’s ASD causes him to be too logical about things, not understand certain situations, and goes against his dad’s rules to do what he believes is right. Firstly, Christopher takes things way to logically and does not understand things such as metaphors, idioms, or loose instructions.

Our lives, whether we realize it or not, revolve around emotion. When plagued with sadness, we find it hard to function; our daily lives hindered and impossible to live. When we feel jubilant, life is comfortable and satisfying. But whatever the circumstance, emotions will eventually lose their grip and sink into the river of time, forgotten until mentioned again. Depression, however, has a profound effect. Depression doesn't fade like emotion; it clings to the minds of the unfortunate souls possessing it, never surrendering its grip. It cemented itself onto the likes of Vincent Van Gogh, Mark Twain, and Robert Frost. Frost's poem "Acquainted with the night," offers insight into the life of a lonely soul affected by depression. Frost emphasizes the seclusion depression brings, isolating those who have it from the rest of the world.

Brooke is apparently over-idealizing the picture. Even at war, with all the devastation and doom it brings about, he still sees beauty and exerts an effort in depicting it. "Frost" is used to denote the death of the soldiers via the death-as-cold conceptual metaphor. However, death is not portrayed as grimly as might be expected since frost "leaves a white / Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance, / A width, a shining peace," which all have positive connotations. The expression "under the night" calls up the conceptual metaphor A LIFETIME IS A DAY, via which the life cycle of the soldiers is conceptualized in terms of the natural cycle of the day.

Robert Frost uses symbolism, setting, and the speaker himself to tell the story of the man who has been acquainted with the night. The first literary element used in “Acquainted with The Night” is symbolism. Darkness and light are used in the poem, more being the lack of light. The poem could be seen as a metaphor of depression and loneliness. Even though it is night time, the moon still reaches the streets, a symbol of hope.

Frost uses carefully chosen diction that alludes to the true feelings that Frost was feeling when writing this poem. In his poem, Frost uses “rain” (Frost 2) to help the reader associate a sad tone to the poem. The way the poem is written produces an emphasis on the gloomy weather. This gloominess is represented through his thoughts

In analyzing the poem, “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost, I have noticed that this author uses several literary styles in his writing while telling a story. This poem is a beautifully written, it seems to tell a story pertaining to the author’s own personal experiences with depression and it is quite cleverly written. In this poem, I feel the author is trying to connect to his readers psyche, by letting them know that if you are experiencing depression or have experienced a similar psychological situation, you are not alone. The tone of this poem is somber and sad if you read it with understanding. The author utilizes the standard stanza style of writing in this poem with a vast amount of metaphors, personifications and imagery in each line he wrote.

First, Robert Frost effectively demonstrates the different receptions of isolation in both poems through his use of language. In “Acquainted with the Night”, the poem begins with the protagonist describing his experience of isolation. He uses the night to represent his solitude saying that “I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain --and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light”.

Robert Frost had a fascination towards loneliness and isolation and thus expressed these ideas in his poems through metaphors. The majority of the characters in Frost’s poems are isolated in one way or another. In some poems, such as “Acquainted with the Night” and “Mending Wall,” the speakers are lonely and isolated from their societies. On other occasions, Frost suggests that isolation can be avoided by interaction with other members of society, for example in “The Tuft of Flowers,” where the poem changes from a speaker all alone, to realizing that people are all connected in some way or another. In Robert Frost’s poems “Acquainted with the Night,” “Mending Wall,” and “The Tuft of Flowers,” the themes insinuate the idea of loneliness

In line 1 the word “night” is used as a metaphor when the author writes, “I have been one acquainted with the night”. “Night” represents depression and the fact that he is lonely; he is in a dark place all by him-self. Another metaphor is walking, and what he has passed by. By leaving and becoming distant that represents his loneliness, his isolation. “I have walked out in rain- and back in rain. / I have outwalked the furthest city light.” (Frost, 2-3). The reader gains the knowledge of his depression, and can further grasp the concept of his isolation. These metaphors fit the tone of the poem because they are metaphors with a depressing meaning, which follows the sad and dark tone of the

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” published in 1915, was written by a man named T.S. Eliot. The speaker of the poem begins to describe an evening that appears to be somewhat romantic and a little mysterious. As the reader progresses into the poem, the mood soon fades and the reader starts to figure out that this evening is not what they pictured. “Acquainted with the Night” is a poem written by Robert Frost. The poem was first published in 1927. The speaker of the poem has a similar mood as Eliot’s poem. One character can not seem to fit in at a tea party and the other character has drifted into the streets at night. Both of the characters are in situations that are not pleasing to the majority of people. The characters are both placed in a position that implies a distasteful and gloomy mood for the readers to experience. Both the imagery and tone of these two poems presents the reader with the conclusion that both poems can represent loneliness as their leading theme.