Acquainted With The Night Poem Analysis

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Robert Frost has been and most likely will be a poet remembered for years to come. His many works have been praised for his use of symbolism and metaphors. In these poems, you simply cannot just read them and expect to grasp the meaning of what it is trying to tell you. You have to examine each line and interpret it from what you believe the meaning is. There could be many hidden meanings, or they could possibly mean whatever the reader wants them to. In Robert Frost’s poems “Acquainted with the Night” and The Road Not Taken, he incorporates the theme of individualism, symbolism, and uses many metaphors.

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He spent eleven years here until his father passed away. He then

Everything is fine until the road splits into two ways. The man has no idea where either goes and does not know if he will find his way back. He looks down one as far as he can and does the same to the other and cannot see a difference. He thinks for a moment because he knows he is alone and that this is a difficult decision. He then takes the road that is less traveled by and says that it has made all the difference, ending the poem.

In Acquainted with the Night, the narrator talks about how he has walked many times with the night, through the rain, and to the farthest city light. He describes how he is alone and that his only companion is the night. Him and the night go on his walk and leave the confines of his city seemingly to get away from it. The night we learn later, seems to represent a place of solitude for the narrator. When he is with it, he feels invisible and does not feel the need for any kind of social interaction of any kind.

“The word "acquainted" underscores the narrator's solitude, for he knows the night intimately in a way he does not know his fellow man” (Bolten). As he walks, he passes a watchman and purposely lowers his eyes not wanting to look at him. The watchman does