About Frost
Robert Frost works in this job.
What is a poet?
This the tone of the poem.
What is sad and lonely?
There are this many groups of lines.
What is 7?
Night symbolizes this.
What is sadness and loneliness?
Robert Frost was born here.
Where is San Francisco?
This line is an example of alliteration.
What is “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet”?
This poem falls into this type of poems.
What are sonnets?
Acquainted with the Night is one of his first poems following these undertones and ideas.
What are darker undertones and ideas?
This happened to Frost’s family when he was 11.
What is the death of his father?
This type of rhyme is used (not the rhyme scheme).
What is masculine rhyme?
This meter is used in this poem.
What is iambic pentameter?
This phrase “acquainted with the night” means this thematically (not literally).
What is being familiar with solitude and depression?
These are colleges Frost went to.
What is Dartmouth and Harvard?
This is the line repeated in the first and last line.
What is “I have been one acquainted with the night”?
This is the theme of the poem.
What is dwelling in grief long enough can lead to finding peace?
This president had Frost recite a poem at his inauguration.
Who is John Kennedy?
This device is used in the line “Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right”.
What is personification/paradox?
This is the name of the rhyme scheme in the poem.
What is terza rima?
This poem is different than Frost’s poem because this poem focused on this setting.
What are urban themes?