Acquainted With the Night

Acqainted With the Night

Overall theme:
shows how intense depression is

History/About

• Published 1927 in The Virginia Quarterly Review
• Often associated w/ depression
• Conveys a stuck-in-the-middle mood

Title importance

Figurtive Language

• Metaphors for much more
• Not just one meaning- reader can relate
• Walking away/ distance, walking/persistance

Poetic Structure

• strict iambic pentameter
• 14 lines, traditional sonnet
• terza rima (ABA, BCB, etc., BB)
• past tense
• passive voice

Personal Meaning