The Difference Between "Night" and "Day" Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night" is not a traditional sonnet in form or theme in comparison to Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Acquainted with the Night" is designated as a sonnet because it is a fourteen-line poem. ... Every other aspect of "Acquainted with the Night" is untraditional. ... In comparison, "Acquainted with the Night" has a somber tone with which Frost describes the "night." ... The speaker is only "Acquainted with Night" and left in a state of darkness. ...

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Acquainted With the Night Robert Frost is famous for his poems about the landscape of New England and the kind of life its inhabitants led. ... "Acquainted With the Night," a poem of loneliness, is a terza rima sonnet which complements the theme in a number of ways. ... This poem tells of a person who walks alone, at night. ... Acquainted With the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. ... I have been one acquainted with the night. ...

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Eliot's Rhapsody on a Windy Night This poem seemed to have no purpose but to tell a story at first, but after rereading it, I found many interesting things that point to something bigger, however, I am not sure what. ... The night is getting longer and morning is growing nearer. ...

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Talking about the structure of the poem, "Why did I laugh to-night," is also a traditional Shakespeare sonnet and has rhyme ABABCDCDEFEFGG. ... Asking, "Why did I laugh to-night?" ... Moreover, "Why did I laugh to-night" chooses specific words to modify the poet's moods. ... In "Why did I laugh to-night", the sentence "Yet would I on this very midnight cease," (11) lets us picture that Keats is being alone in the dark black night accepting his impending death. ... On the other hands, in "Why did I laugh to-night," the poet has dilemma between facing morality and accepting actual death. ...

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The poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by the romantic poet John Keats is about a man sitting alone outside at night listening to a nightingale sing somewhere in the woods. ... Another example would be that Keats rhymes the word "night" on the end of line 35 with the word "light" on the end of line 38. Line 38 is "But here there is no light" making the rhyme with night very interesting because at night there is often little to no light. ... There is a sort of blending of the two fantastical symbols because both the moon and the fairies are considered feminine a...

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In the first stanza it is night and the speaker is comparing the colors shining into the room that he is in to "the colors of bushes/and the fallen leaves." ... "I saw how the planets gathered/Like the leaves themselves/Turning in the wind- The speaker then sees "how the night came, /Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks- Now the person in the poem is scared, and realizes that the "stars too seem part of this process of annihilation" (Sukenick, p. 8), now the speaker "remembers the [peacocks] cry which marks it" (Sukenick, p. 8). ... For instance, he compares the planets to t...

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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. ...

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He also considers that "Time debateth with decay, to change your day of youth to sullied night", an extension of the aging theme in the second quatrain. ... The first quatrain tells of days that conclude with "limbs with travel tired" and "a journey in my head" that begins at night. ... The third quatrain relates his loves image to a "jewel hung in ghastly night" making the night beautiful and a familiar face new again. ...

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The speaker also repeats images of "night and morning- (l.6) and "day and night- (l.9) to emphasize the struggle between good and evil and thus the struggle between enemies and the torture it creates in the speaker's life. ... Later, night arrives, personified to "veil the pole- (l.14) or darken the sky. Also, the metaphor of a bridal "veil- is employed to represent the merging or marriage of day and night and the unison of friend and foe that will soon be created when one is vanquished. ... In so doing, he also creates an underlying feeling of anguish through repetition, a clear strug...

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Night is going to fall soon and he is tired, so he must leave the field for the day. ... In his dreams that night he will dream of apples. ... You can also see the theme of dissatisfaction in the poem Acquainted with the Night. ... You can see that he enjoys walking in the night because he has done it so much. He seems attracted by the beauty of the night and the moon. ...

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Shakespeare uses imagery to parallel the themes of the passage of time and nature by combining the two and using the idea of day and night to represent a natural clock. In the second line of the poem Shakespeare writes, "And see the brave day sunk in hideous night" (line 2). By talking about the passage of time in the first line and then using the imagery of day turning into night Shakespeare is able to parallel the two. Furthermore, the adjectives he uses to describe day and night are "brave" and "hideous," respectively. ... It is important to notice that he uses a w...

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The words "night", "starr"d", "cloudy", "unreflecting" (like the water), "shore", make it seem like it is a beach. There are many personifications found through out the poem like "night's face", as well as metaphors such as "chance-hand" and "world's shore". ... Words like "night", "star", "shadow" reflect the darker mood of the period. ...

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"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", by Dylan Thomas, focuses on a son addressing his father on his death bed, pleading with him to fight for his life, not to let death quietly take him away. ... "Do not go gentle into that good night/ Rage, rage against the dying of the light", (1,3) are the lines chosen for repetition. ... Death is referred to as a "good night" and "the dying of the light." ... "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is a poem that focuses on a son's struggle to accept his father's eminent death. ...

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Dylan Thomas's poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," tells the reader to live his life to the fullest and fight against death while, in the other hand, William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" tells its audience not to fear death and to embrace it when it arrives. ... In Thomas's poem, although the speaker doesn't want his father to die, he informs the reader of his belief that death is something pleasant when he refers to it as the "good night." ... Bryant refers to death as a "pleasant dreams" the very same way in which Thomas's poem refers to it as a "good n...

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The horse's questioning air adds to the mood as the ringing of his bells contrasts the quiet night. He describes the night as silent, peaceful, and dark through imagery in the words "the sweep of easy wind and downy flake." ...

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His writing of "a wind blew out of a cloud by night chilling my Annabel Lee" (line 15), leaves a sensation of how he feels cursed and the heavens took away the joy because of the angels" discontent. ... In the final stanza you really feel the pain of a broken hearted man, "and so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in her sepulcher there by the sea-in her tomb by the sea". ...

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Books, however, prove to be of little help, as his night becomes a nightmare and his solitude is shattered by a single visitor, the raven. ... However, The Raven, as well as the dreary December night shows signs of darkness. ...

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It is important to have metaphors in poetry because the reader can then see what the poet means and feels. A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things that have something in common. A metaphor helps the writer create a verbal picture that helps the reader to see ideas more clearly. It...

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It focuses on the sadness as those we care for go far too gently into that good night. ... The meaning of the poem stays shrouded in metaphors like the references to night as "good". ... These emotion seem to run unchallenged throughout the poem even though the style beckons structure and discipline within the theme of "night" and "light". ...

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The poem follows the effects of the storm on various objects observable from the house, starting with a metaphor comparing the house with a ship far out at sea at night and stuck in a storm. ... The poem follows a very well structured timeline beginning with the fact that the poet has already been facing the storm for one night then how dawn breaks, how from the noon to the evening the wind again picks up speed and once again starts destroying everything in its path, finally at night it reaches a level where it seems that it will tear the house apart at which point the poet ends the poem. ...

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Binary oppositions of night and day have always been associated with female vs. male respectively. The night was always perceived as the female's domain whereas the day belonged to the man. ... Under the night domain, the man suffers a nightmare, while it can be seen that the woman is having the same dream but enjoying it. This suggests that the night is the woman's domain whereas the day is linked with the man. ...

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Within the many verses of the poem, Poe describes a lonely man who is visited by a raven late one night. ... As the poem progresses, the man asks several questions as to the nature of the bird, and why he has visited the man in the dark of night. At one point, he even states, "Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" ... Even after the man has suffered enough from the banter with the bird, when the man states "Get thee back into the tempest and the night's Plutonian shore!" ...

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Furthermore, the trees are further personified when Hardy states the trees "succumbs to the crawl of the night." The word 'succumbs' refers to the trees slowing down as night time sets in. ...

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While the wind in "The Night-Wind- is enticing and death in "Because I could not stop for Death- is guiding, the poets are relaying the same message of seize the day. ... In "The Night-Wind- Bronte uses personification to describe the wind as breathing, whispering, sighing sweetly and as a childhood friend. ...

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The highwayman is deeply in love with Bess and goes to see her one night. ... Even after years, it is said that on a night like that one, one can hear the highwayman on his horse coming to the inn-door, and one can see Bess at the window with her hair let loose waiting for the highwayman. ...

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