"Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost is a poem about a person who is well acquainted with the night. In this poem, the author or the speaker explains why he/she is well acquainted with the night. It seems as the poem progresses that the speaker enjoys walks through the night of a city, and that he also enjoys walks in rainy nights. The speaker goes down a sad area of the city were he encounters a watchman were he/she ignores. When the speakers stop because he/she listens to a cry, which he/she believes is for he/she, as is somebody calling for him/her back or telling him/her goodbye. The cry the speaker heard was not for him/her. Toward the end of the poem the speaker ignores the time in a clock in a sky as is was neither wrong nor right as the speaker has more knowledge of the night than a clock. This poem is about a person who has a more knowledge than anyone or anything else of what the night really means because he/she spend all his nights walking in the night......

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Title: Acquainted With The Night
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