Essay - Robert Frost Poem 'Acquainted with the Night' Robert Frost's Acquainted...

Robert Frost poem "Acquainted with the night"

Robert Frost's ***** with the Night

***** of ***** things that attract the reader to Frost's poetry is the particular sound and rhythm of his poems. As it is well known, Frost was an advocate of the traditional style of verse. As such, he used form and rhyme along with the actual content of his poetry to convey meaning. Acquainted with ***** Night is especially significant for the analysis of the interaction between *****m and content, since it is composed as a sonnet. Although the poem ***** open to diverging readings, it is safe ***** say that the poet himself ***** the speaker ***** that the text describes a descent into the poet's own consciousness. Thus, the im*****gery ***** well as ***** form and rhythm of the poem interlock to ease the access of the reader to obscure regions of the ***** that ***** poet describes in the *****. In Frost's poem, the form and ***** rhythm play active roles in the *****terpretation by assisting the experience of the dim ***** mysterious realms of the subconscious.

***** imagery of the poem is obviously symbolic: the all-blanketing night, ***** rain, the watchman, the distant cry in the street and the moon are roughly the ma***** points ***** the description. The landscape is ***** not a natural but a ment*****l one. The triple terza rima rhyme aba bcb cdc as well as the tertiary ***** form hint at ***** symbolic, key-number three as a structuring element of the *****. The rhyme scheme moreover serves to create an interdependence ***** each stanza ***** the contiguous one. Although the poem follows the traditional sonnet form, what is interesting ***** ***** Frost uses this form in a modern way: he ma*****tains the structure of the classical sonnet but he arranges the ideas in a peculiar way, without respecting for instance the use ***** the last two lines as explana*****ry for the rest of the text. The first lines of ***** poem ***** all disrupted by full stops, creating thus the impression of briefness but also fixing the atmosphere ***** the poem. ***** ***** is thus at first brief and *****, then flowing and then disrupted once more in the end. The rhythm and the meter ***** with the symbolic imagery ***** ***** ***** ********** journey beyond the immediate ***** ***** the darkness of the subconscious. To be "acquainted with the night" is here obviously to have an experience of ***** darker and more profound ***** of the human mind. All the images in the text indicate that ***** poet crosses the boundaries ***** consciousness, entering a world of veiled darkness, beyond the "furthest city light": "I ***** been ***** acquainted with the night./ I have walked out in ra***** -- and back in rain./ ***** have outwalked the furthest city light."(*****, 8) The actual description in the poem suggests a nocturnal walk somewhere beyond the borders of an *****habited city. The poet thus symbolically goes past the watchm*****,