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 figurative language used in the poem,such as the extended metaphors and symbolism, it becomes dear that the poem is about the narrator's melacholy and sense of isolation. The narrator is aquainted 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 acquinted with the night". In the last stanza, line one states, "proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right", as a human - like communication - the clock. Frost also uses symbolism, such as, "I have walked out in
Between five to six million Jews are killed during the Holocaust (Holocaust | Basic Questions). In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel shares his personal experiences with the readers how at age fifteen he works his life in German concentration camps. While he shares his story, he uses figurative language to create more meaning for the reader. Wiesel specifically uses similes and personification to create meaning for the reader.
The novel Night is a memoir because it is a book about historical events. Its title night can either be literally or figuratively because when the “Night” comes bad things happen. Also the title brings fear and safety that the night brings. They are many ways to know if it is figuratively.
Elie Wiesel and his family were forced from their home in Hungary into the concentration camps of the Holocaust. At a young age, Wiesel witnessed unimaginable experiences that scarred him for life. These events greatly affected his life and his writings as he found the need to inform the world about the Holocaust and its connections to the current society. The horrors of the Holocaust changed the life of Elie Wiesel because he was personally connected to the historical event as a Jewish prisoner, greatly influencing his award-winning novel Night.
In your life, have you ever experienced an event so traumatic that you cannot forget it? Well, a man by the name of Elie Wiesel went through a very traumatic event in his childhood and has yet to forget it. In order to share his experience Elie decided to write the memoir Night. Throughout the entire memoir Elie used figurative language. Figurative language is something an author can use to help their reader paint a mental picture. A few examples are simile, metaphor, and imagery. Elie Wiesel uses figurative language throughout Night and in the passage describing Madame Schachter screaming about fire in the cattle car which is an example of imagery.
This line from the “short story,” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time reveals that the narrator has a close parent, is very formal and straightforward, doesn’t like hugging people, and knows that they’re loved. Diction in this particular situation is fairly odd because the sentence looks intended to be emotional, but instead turns on quite regular and bland. The vague pronouns “we... me...I...it...he”(16) suggest that the writer doesn’t care about extravagant pronouns and would much rather get straight down to the point than perfect the use of ablatives. Along with the vague pronouns, an extreme lack of adjectives shows that our narrator wants to continue with the trend of plain sailing. Using words like “Father”(16) exhibit a
Our speaker seems a solemn individual. One, whom explores a city alone and by night, a favorable past time for anybody who does not want to be bothered. Yet, as evidenced in the form of the poem, our speaker seems to feel a spark of excitement when human interaction becomes a possibility within our story. However, it seems that our poet, Robert Frost, displays an uncanny knack for misdirection throughout the entirety of this poem, and unless we meticulously pick this poem apart, we may miss the real meaning behind Frost 's words. Case in point: At first glance, this poem, about a lonely individual, appears to focus on their desire for human companionship, but, just perhaps, our speaker is actually loath to admit his true feelings, that companionship is what they desire the least.
Romantics produced texts which were humble and natural rather than sophisticated. These texts shifted the art world’s audience from upper class, highly educated individuals to the common people. Humble texts with simpler ideas, celebrating the common person became more common and dominant in Romantic texts. ‘Frost at Midnight’, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a humble, reflective text regarding a persona, alone in their home reflecting on their life and the life they want for their sleeping child. ‘Frost at Midnight’ is a humble text as it is focused on one person, in a small unknown village. The persona is not depicted as someone of great social class or status, rather a common worker or villager. Coleridge’s description of the home as being surrounded by ‘sea, hill and wood’ emphasizes the universality of the location and the persona – the poem is not bound to those near the sea or who live isolated in forests. The repetition of this phrase places further emphasis on the lack of a set location. The poem itself is written ‘conversational’ style. The choices of diction are basic and the structure is relaxed. There is no set rhyming scheme thus meaning the reader can read the poem as
Frost’s application of diction in “Acquainted With the Night” expresses the meaning that hard times provides isolation through key words that provide the audience with proof that the speaker is communicating a detached mood. In line 1, “acquainted,” is a vital use of diction to show the meaning. The word acquainted means to know very well. When the speaker is saying he is “acquainted with the night” in line 1, he is indicating that he is familiar with the lonely night. By being “acquainted” with darkness, or the night, in his life, the speaker is illustrating how being in an isolated state of life is not new to him. The meaning of detached feelings because of hardships is revealed
When talking about the saw, Frost uses personification and repetition. Personification is seen when he says that at times it can run light and at others it has to "bear a load", talking as if the saw was a person which had to carry something.
In the poem “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost, the Romantic poet explores the idea of humanity through nature. This sonnet holds a conversational tone with a depressing mood as the man walks in the dark city trying to gain knowledge about his “inner self”. The narrator takes a stroll at night to embrace the natural world but ignores the society around him. His walk allows him to explore his relationship with nature and civilization. In “Acquainted with the Night”, the narrator emphasizes his isolation from the society by stating his connectivity with the natural world.
As the whole the poet was able to create a vivid picture of the life, aimlessness and the death by employing his poem. The unique features of this nature and realistic poet can be visible through of the work. Frost has used the literary techniques to certain extent. The rhyme and the imageries of the poem have helped a lot to develop the poem, while demonstrating the characteristics of the
Frost however includes the use of personification in the poem. He personifies the water droplet which falls into the well. The water droplet obscures the speaker’s view from seeing his reflection, and therefore the water droplet could be seen as a person who does not want him to see any further. (As well as personification, this area of the poem uses both alliteration and the three stages used to obscure the speaker’s view. “...and lo, a ripple/Shook whatever it was that lay there at bottom,/Blurred it, blotted it out”.)
Personification is giving human like qualities to inanimate objects. An example of this is in stanza 21 and 22 where Frost writes “But I was going to say when Truth broke in/With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm”. Frost personified the truth as a woman. By personifying it, the reader can have a deeper comprehension of how Frost envisioned the truth. Another example is in stanzas 50 and 51 where Frost writes “May no fate willfully misunderstand me/And half grant what I wish and snatch me away”. Obviously fate has no will. Obviously fate cannot literally snatch Frost. Never the less sometime it can feel like fate hand selects what happens and what does not. Frost does an amazing job of helping the reader visualize how he sees these events by personifying specific parts
(themes) Perhaps one of the reasons that Frost remains one the best known and best loved American poets is that his themes are universal and attractive. They offer the reader affirmative resolutions for the conflicts dramatized in his life and his poetry. Readers, whether young or old, waging their own struggles against the constant threat of chaos in their life, find comfort and encouragement in many of Frost’s lines which are so cherished that they have become familiar quotations: “Good fences make good neighbors”, “Miles to go before I sleep.”
The vivid imagery, symbolism, metaphors make his poetry elusive, through these elements Frost is able to give nature its dark side. It is these elements that must be analyzed to discover the hidden dark meaning within Roberts Frost’s poems. Lines that seemed simple at first become more complex after the reader analyzes the poem using elements of poetry. For example, in the poem Mending Wall it appears that Robert frost is talking about two man arguing about a wall but at a closer look the reader realizes that the poem is about the things that separate man from man, which can be viewed as destructive. In After Apple Picking, the darkness of nature is present through the man wanting sleep, which is symbolic of death.