Edward Plunkett (Lord Dunsany) Biography.“The Way of All Flesh” by Samuel Butler.
The clock symbolizes the time in the poem. What does the clock symbolize in Acquainted With the Night? What is the tone of acquainted with the night?Ī biting ironical tone is being created here. It is a poem of social satire and sorrow. What type of poem is acquainted with the night? It means the poet is being acquainted with a night where he finds the truth. What does acquainted with the night mean? Enjambment is the continuation of thoughts even to the next stanza and Alliteration is the repetition of vowel sounds used in a line like,Įxcept these all, some minor literary devices are there like imagery, metaphor. I have walked out in rain-and back in rain.”Įnjambment, Alliteration are also relevant to the poem. Anaphora means repeating of same words at the beginning of two lines one after another. Then comes Anaphora as a poetic aesthetic use. Rain is the symbol of cry or the tears of people, the luminary clock means the time, and night is the symbol of darkness, death. Here, ‘rain’, ‘luminary clock’, ‘night’s. Symbolism is when the poet uses a word to create an image or a symbol. Symbolism is another important poetic device that is being used in this poem. “I have walked out in rain-and back in rain” This poem is written in iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme is ‘aba cdc dad aa’.Ĭonsonance is a significant literary device that means the repetition of consonant sound used in a line like, Robert Frost also uses enough of literary devices to attract his readers. Literary devices are one of the relevant parts of the poems that makes the reads highly attractive. Acquainted with the Night Literary Devices Used So, the whole poem stands with the poet’s vision on the world and he is trying to show that is has been filled with depression and anxiety. Here isolation among people, human sorrow, loneliness is being presented maybe the poet is also looking at the world with his dreary-eyes. In the case of “Acquainted with the Night” poem, the meaning this quote is being found successfully. Thought and the thought has found words.” When the first stanza was starting it seems like a ‘romantic poem’ but with the poet’s detailed description it is being shown that he is talking about human Insights where everyone is suffering from pain. Inside the house, a man or woman is crying and the world is also crying.
Maybe cry and the rain is being compared in this poem. In this poem, Robert Frost deals with the sad journey of life where people are crying. “I have been acquainted with the night.” Acquainted with the Night Analysis The poet now does not know whether the time is good or not but he still thinking about the city cry. This is the sun with whom the poet is comparing the clock. And then the poet perhaps is looking at the sky and saying about an ‘unearthly height’. Maybe the poet is trying to address the call of God or of someone that never called back and did not bid him goodbye. In the next paragraph, he would be talking of something else.Īnd further still at an unearthly height,” So much sadness all around the poet where the cry is coming from a house. When he started his walk he saw another but with his steps, he learns so many facts. Now the poet is hearing a voice that comes from far away and seems it is crying. After watching the man he went on and then stopped the sound of his feet. The poet is telling to readers in a manner of expressing a journey. “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet” Here, the second stanza ends but it tells of a cry of mankind. Poet does not want to say on that as he is still in fear of the pain that the watchman is suffering from. Maybe the watchman is being beaten by others that is why he is standing and the poet’s eye can read the sorrow of the man. Then the poet saw a watchman and crossed him on his beat and his eyes fall on him, the poet does not want to utter much on that.