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Robert Frost's 'Acquainted with the Night' is a lyric poem which expresses the solitude and loneliness of the speaker, and also provides a self- revelation of one being alienated and not knowing where to belong, by presenting a story where the speaker finds acquaintance in the night as he walks down the sad city streets. The melancholy imagery is the first thing that relates you with the poem's theme. The setting of which he walks in the 'saddest city lane' (4) differs from Frost's usual countryside setting, which corresponds to the feeling of him not belonging to this world. Through images of walking in and out of the rain, the furthest city lights, the dark night and the saddest city lane, readers identify with the speaker, a lonely person who has become acquainted with the night. Nothing can be more powerful in expressing loneliness than the image of a...

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