Acquainted With the Night, An AP Analysis
Robert Frost, the author of, "Acquainted With the Night" uses many literary devises to tell the speaker's attitude toward the city and the speaker's current life. Frost uses language such as diction and imagery, details, and metaphors to reveal the speaker's attitude of loneliness and depression.
Diction plays a major role in helping the audience, or reader understand the attitude of the speaker. Words such as, "saddest", "unwilling", and "cry" are all words used to describe emotions of loneliness or despair. The speaker obviously has something li…
