A c q u a in t e d w it h t h e N ig h t ( 19 2 8 )

by Robert Frost (1874-1963)AZLINA BINTI JAMAL

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ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)

SUMMARY

STANZA 1- The speaker says that he has met or has some knowledge of night when he was walked alone in rain.- He is walking into a part where there are no light.(…out walked the furthest city light)

STANZA 2- The speaker wants to let us to know that it not just an average dark and lonely night, but it darkest and loneliest. - He has walked by the watchman (policeman or security guard) on duty (…on his beat )

- The speaker looks down, avoiding the glance of the watchman (he doesn’t want to explain)

STANZA 3- The speaker stopped walking when he heard a distant sound of yelling, but he can’t quite make it out because it’s interrupted.- The speaker means by saying that the cry is far away- it's not even from somewhere on the same block, but form another street.

STANZA 4- The speaker says that the cry the he

heard wasn’t for him and he looks up to the sky.

- He is used to things like trying to tell what time it is by looking at the location of the moon in the sky.

*luminary : glowing, bright, someone who is really smart/ celestial (sun, stars and moon)

STANZA 5 (the couplet)- The speaker feels like, no matter

what time it is, it’s neither wrong nor right.

- He’s acquainted with the night, so he used to this dark, creepy loneliness, but he doesn’t like it very much, either.

* Last line is similar to the first line

REFERENCES

http://www.shmoop.com/acquainted-with-night/summary.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost