Summary of Frost's Acquainted with the Night

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''Acquainted with the Night'' is a poem written by the American pastoral poet Robert Frost. He was born in 1874 and died in 1963. He wrote about characters, landscape of New England and the beauty of nature. His famous collection is A Boy's Will which was published in 1931. However, '' Acquainted with the Night'' is a poem taken from his collection West Running-Brook. It is a sonnet that does not deal with Frost's major theme, the beauty of nature. It discusses a terrible personal experience of a man who suffers from loneliness in the city.

The poet lived in the countryside and his popular theme is about the beauty of nature. However, he suddenly found himself alone suffering from the city and its harshness. The poem draws a picture of his life in the city. The poem starts with the nigh...

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