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Acquainted with the Night (Robert Frost)

I have been one acquainted 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 one acquainted with the night!.

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It's a night walk poem -- a fairly common poetic situation !.!.!. the poet alone walks the empty city nights so as to better understand his own isolation!. The rest of the city, the rest of the world is sleeping -- or is involved in late-night cruelties -- but the poet has no connection to either of those two worlds!.

Nightwalk poems tend to be about isolation, melancholy, a feeling of alienation or displacement -- about being radically alone in a society that has no place for you!.

BTW, this is a modified sonnet!.

And it's a beautiful poem!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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