Poetry assignment

By: Bleon

Acquainted with the night
By: Robert frost I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have out walked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat and dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
A luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

Analysis

The man in this story has walked at night a lot. He’s walked both away and back, probably his home, in the rain. He has walked out in to the city, and past the lights, maybe out of the city, and he’s looked down lonely, dark streets.

The man has walked by a watch man, and look at him because he didn’t want to say why he was there, not even with a glance. The man stops because he wants to listen to a voice calling from the other street. He hoped the voice was calling for him.

The man looks up at a clock, which probably is the moon, he was not satisfied with the time it showed. He ends by referring to the first line of the poem.

I picked this picture for the poem because it connects so well with the poem. In the poem it says the man walked past the lights and back. In the picture it shows a man walking past city lights. The poem states that the man has looked down dark and lonely streets, in the picture the street looks very lonely and it is dark. In the picture the man looks like he is walking in the rain and it looks very mysterious and creepy just like the poem. The picture connects with the poem in so many ways.

Fire and ice
By: Robert frost

Some say the world will end in fire some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.

Analysis The person speaking brings us into the middle of an argument between the people that think the world will end in a fiery ball and the people that think the world will freeze.

The persons experience with romantic desire has taught him that love would probably have the earth turn into a big ball of fire. He also knows that hate has a destructive power.

I picked this picture because this picture has many connections to the poem. The poem is all about people arguing about how the earth will end, will it end in fire? Or in ice? The picture has both fire and ice on both ends of the earth just like theirs people on the fire end and people on the ice end. I think this picture is representing that the more people hate or argue the more the fire and ice will spread and it will come even sooner than people expect.

Keeping things whole
By: mark strand

In a field
I am the absence of field.
This is always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.

We all have reasons for moving.
I move to keep things whole.

Analysis
The man is in a field. His presence is “the absence of field.” When he’s standing in the field, he’s occupying the particular space. When he walks, the air fills in where he was previously standing.
He states that he moves to “keep thing whole.” So when he move the air fills in behind him, the air is becoming whole again.

I picked this picture because the setting of the poem was in a field. The poem is about a man walking in a field to keep things whole. He keeps things whole by moving and the air behind him fills the area which he was standing in and the air becomes whole.

I hav
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.