Robert Frost's Acquainted with the Night and Ezra Pound's In a Station of the Metro use marvelous imagery, brilliantly giving voice to this bottomless feeling. In Frost's Acquainted with the Night, he uses an aimless walk in the dark of the night as a metaphor for the loneliness that he knows so well. In the first line he states that he was "one acquainted with the night," taking special care to use the word "one" to describe his place in the night. ... In the second line he adds rain to the description- twice- walking in it as he enters the night and returns form it. ... I...

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