Potpourri Unit 4

     Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost is about the speakers state of depression.  The speaker is extremely lonely and this is proved by the solitary use of "I".  The speaker is completely isolated.  The watchmen in the poem, although present, does not play an emotional role in the poem.  The continue use of the pronoun "I" shows this.  Even when the speaker hears "an interrupted cry" (7) he says that the cry is not meant for him because he has no one waiting for him.  The speakers depression has reached a point where he cannot connect with society anymore.  He walks at nights because that is when it is the loneliest.  The reader does not know if the speaker will ever come out of depression because he only goes out at night.  For this reason, the speaker is literally, acquainted with the night.