Acquainted with the Night

"Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost is a poem about a person who is well acquainted with the night. In this poem, the author or the speaker explains why he/she is well acquainted with the night. It seems as the poem progresses that the speaker enjoys walks through the night of a city, and that he also enjoys walks in rainy nights. The speaker goes down a sad area of the city were he encounters a watchman were he/she ignores. When the speakers stop because he/she listens to a cry, which he/she believes is for he/she, as is somebody calling for him/her back or telling him/her goodbye. The cry the speaker heard was not for him/her. Toward the end of the poem the speaker ignores the time in a clock in a sky as is was neither wrong nor right as the speaker has more knowledge of the night than a clock. This poem is about a person who has a more knowledge than anyone or anything else of what the night really means because he/she spend all his nights walking in the night looking for something he lost.

The speaker of this poem is explaining of what the night consist of in his opinion. In the first line, the speaker right away tells the readers that he well acquainted to the night. The speaker seems to have good knowledge of the night and also enjoys it, as what the reader can capture from the first line. In line 2 and 3 the speaker begins to explain about a journey him/her in a rainy night while leaving a city. The speaker is explaining of what a night consist of trough a walk through a rainy night leaving a particular city. It seems that he enjoys walking regularly in the night, a reason to belief that the speaker is well acquainted to the night, because walk and observe the night regularly. In the next stanza, line 4 to 6, the speaker says that he/she leave the city through the saddest lane of the city where he encounters a watchman, which he completely ignores. It is to say that the speaker is making a statement he/she does not care about a time in a watch, because he/she knows the night better than anybody and specially the speakers knows more than about the night than a clock's time.

In lines 7 to 10, the speakers stop when he/she hears a cry, which the speaker belief the cry is for him/her as somebody calling him/her back or telling him goodbye. It seems as the speaker was specting the night to bring him/her something or somebody the speaker lost in the night. What the speaker is constantly searching in the night it maybe a reason why the speaker is well acquainted with the night. In the next three lines, lines 11 to13, the speaker's talks about an encounter with a clock high in the sky which the time was neither wrong nor right. It seems that again the speaker does no acknowledge time, as he/she did earlier when he/she passes the watchman. For some reason the speaker beliefs that he/she knows more the night than time itself. In the last line, line 14, the speaker reminds the readers that he/she is well acquainted with the night.

As the readers know the speaker in the poem is well acquainted with the night, but the question is raise of why is the speaker well acquainted with the night. Could it be because it the first and last lines he/she say he is well acquainted with the night. Or because the speaker like to take long walk through the night, or is it because he knows the night better than time itself, the speaker reminds us of this twice in the poem. But lastly can it be because the speaker has lost somebody in the night and has been looking for that somebody seen that night. All the suggestion are good reasons why to belief that the speaker is well acquainted with the night, in fact all the reason put together are the reason why the speaker is well acquainted with the night. The speaker is well acquainted with the night because he spend all his night walking through the night looking for something or somebody he/she