Analysis/Explication - Essay Example

The title itself gave the mood of the whole poem; the use of the word “night” could mean a dark, sad and lonely part of his journey through life in which the speaker is familiar with as he was “acquainted” with it. Frost used the phrase “walked out” and “back in rain” might be reminiscing instances when he had been through hardships, somehow got out of it and experienced yet another period of trials and frustrations in his life (2). When he expressed himself through the line “I have outwalked the furthest city light” (3), the speaker might have been talking about his triumphs and success as a part of his life.

This phrase could be a contradiction of his aloneness to emphasize that his existence was not all sad and lonely; he married Elinor Miriam White in the 19th of December, 1895 (Merriman). Part of his achievements was that he was able to confirm his reputation as a poet with “Mountain Interval” in 1916, “New Hampshire” in 1923 and several subsequent volumes over time (Norwich 165). The part where he said “looked down the saddest city lane” might be translated as an experience of grief he would remember (4).

This could be the times when he lost his family one by one in less than a decade, his daughter Marjorie died in 1934, his wife Elinor who died of heart attack in 1938 and his son Carol in 1940 (Merriman). Integrating his own personal belief, the speaker used the word “watchman” on the fifth line as a description of God watching over him. The line “And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain” talks about his conscious shame on losing his belief in his Creator; he might have been asking why everything that had happened to him was allowed by God (6).

Somehow he showed that there was a time when he doubted his own faith because of the tragedies he went through. On the seventh line, he paused and “stopped the sound of feet” explaining