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Jezmund
11-15-2005, 02:24 PM
Acquainted with the Night
Robert Frost

I have been one aquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain-and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street.

But not to call me back or say good-bye:
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right
I have been on acquainted with the night.

TrippinBTM
11-15-2005, 02:40 PM
I love Frost :)

freefall
11-15-2005, 03:37 PM
I like. you have introdused me to a fine poet :)

Jezmund
11-15-2005, 05:00 PM
this is a great poem.

Frost isolates himself through the word "one" from the rest of the world in the first line. He also emphasizes his isolation by starting seven of his lines with "I have"

Frost finds comfort in his isolation (in the country?) however because he chooses to avoid the despair and hopelessness of city life (crime and poverty?).

am I on target?

can someone else take this explication a little further for me?