acquaint with darkness

Acquainted with the Night
Robert Frost

The language used in this poem is all rather dark. The idea of night obviously depicts darkness, but the idea of isolation also lends itself to the darker tone of the poem. The speaker has "outwalked the furthest city light" (976); this lends itself to the isolation of the speaker. He has separated himself from the rest of the world, as shown by the previous quote. However, other isolate him as well. The voices not calling to him demonstrate that other people isolate the speaker as well. When I first read the poem, I thought the speaker solitude was also in reference to maybe a depression. Furthermore, the darker tone and images caused me to believe this as well. The only sense of light is the clock. However, this is not really bright because it is neither right or wrong, which lend to it not really being light, but not really being dark.