Robert Frost Personification

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The speaker, Frost, discusses that the theme of depression being personified, considers the simple interactions that are written about. Not only does he refuse to keep eye contact with a watchman who seemingly would be interested in what he has to say, but he believes that the “interrupted cry” in the streets was meant for him. The narrator continues to walk through the night aimlessly and has become acquainted with the night to the point where he is used to it. This hints that perhaps this has become a regular encounter with the night because he has nowhere else to go. The underlining fact that is not addressed as much, is how the narrator emphasizes at the first and last line, that he has been acquainted with the night. The theme of depression being personified is shown because the narrator uses past tense to hint that this hasn’t been, and will not be, the last time he becomes acquainted with the night. …show more content…
The ironic parts in the text are sentences that contradict itself such as the “saddest city lane” or the “time was neither wrong nor right.” For a city lane, it is usually going to be exciting and bustling with energy yet with the speaker, all he sees is something empty. The ironic relationship of this line, is similar to how the speaker is with the Night. The narrator is seeing the night as depressing, lonely, and isolated while other people may accompany the night with energetic, lively, and exciting. The larger difference that separates him from the others is the fact that the narrator, despite him being lonely, gets comfort that he is at least with someone, aka, the Night. When defined, time is “the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.” Upon analyzing the line “time was neither wrong nor right,” it is ironic that the speaker is seeing this “indefinite progress” as something that is unknown and
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