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Acquainted With The Night

The poem Acquainted with the Night, composed by Robert Frost is about the composer Robert Frost walking around the town of England at nighttime. Frost walks around at night a lot, he walks both away and back, and probably home in the rain. He has walked in the city and beyond the lights, perhaps out of the city, and he has looked down lonely dark streets. In the poem, Frost walks by a watchman, but did not look at him because he did not want to explain why he was their, not even with a glance. He then stops to listen to a voice calling out from another street, in which he hopes calling for him.
Throughout the poem, many techniques are used to shape the understanding of the concept of belonging. Techniques such as repetition, personification, first person, and rhyme are all used in the poem to give the reader an insight on the concept of belonging. In the poem, repetition is shown to be used in the first stanza, with the word ‘I have’ repeating at the start of each sentence. This repetition of ‘I’ depicts the feeling of isolation and alienation which the protagonist experiences which gives depicts to the readers the feeling of not belonging.
Personification is used throughout the poem to give an insight on the concept of belonging. An example of personification used in the text is “saddest city lane”. This example clearly shows the composer is giving human characteristics to a non-living object, which is a personification.
Throughout the poem, first person narration was another technique used. Words like ‘I have’ show how the composer puts his own words into content. Through the use of this technique, we are able to understand the significant effect of language techniques, and their impact on the idea of belonging.
Rhyme is another technique that is used in the poem which helps to illustrate the idea of the concept of belonging. Rhyme is shown to be used in this poem in the first stanza, and occurs at the last word in the sentence. For example: I have...