Robert Lee Frost's Acquainted With The Night

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Prima facie, this text looks like a poem. This is because it has been "indented" into stanzas. We can also observe a sort of rhyme scheme. This must be proof enough. Upon closer investigation, we see that the poem is written in a strict iambic pentameter, and has 14 lines (like a sonnet). The rhyme scheme , known as Terza rima, is ABA CDC DAD AA. This is exceptionally difficult to write in English, but the author has done it with such finesse, surely they must be very well-endowed.

We see that the poem begins and ends with the same sentence. In poetry, a significant line or phrase is stressed by repetition. It may be that this phrase is somehow linked to the title of our text, or to the major theme of the text.

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He is a well-known American poet.He spent majority of his life in New England, particularly New Hampshire, and his poems echo the thoughts of a common New-Englander; which can also be seen from his extensive use of colloquial terms from that region. Reviewing North of Boston in the New Republic, Amy Lowell wrote, “Not only is his work New England in subject, it is so in technique.... Mr. Frost has reproduced both people and scenery with a vividness which is extraordinary.”
His poems are set in rural New-England, and he uses common sights to explain and portray deep psychological “phenomena”.

His poems are filled with imagery, and if not in a direct sense, it is very easy to imagine the scene that he is depicting in his poem. It is easy to imagine an orchard in After Apple-picking, or spring in a farmyard in Two tramps In Mud Time.
And in that way, he can take your mind to New England. We also see such glimpses in this text. This, I feel, makes the poem easier to understand, at least in denotative meaning. His other famous poems include Birches, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken, and many

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