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John Shea
(10/30/2009 6:02:00 PM) |
I graduated in 1969 and whos woods these are i have no clue..I love this mans poetry... he is a lover of nature...a person with total control of what strikes his eye..I wish I could have met you Robert. John.
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Twilight Shimmer
(10/28/2008 12:01:00 PM) |
The poem resonates with silence. Silence of spell-binding ethereal experience, that comes only by a going beyond the self. Frost seems to be walking out of himself into an anticipated aura of divine existence, where the 'luminary clock' decides the time and setting for his transcendence. Throughout the poem, I feel, the tone reverberates between pride and a quite desire, to be 'acquainted' with the night. So that even if the suggested experience could or not reach the zenith, the feeling to have come close to acquiring that unearthly state is pure bliss.
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Sofia Poullada
(4/5/2008 2:23:00 PM) |
I think that at the time he wrote this poem, Frost was deeply in love with someone that he could not have a relationship with. He felt that the time was 'right' because it was a mutual and real love, but 'wrong' because the person was not in a life situation where they could respond.
The image of the moon as a clock and timekeeper is wonderful. So much to relate to in this poem. Not wanting to 'explain' why one was wandering the night...The ambiguous cry from a distance...
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Ray Brown
(3/6/2008 8:53:00 AM) |
There is something simple and beautiful about this rendition of being alone in the night. There is an old familiarity with the ways of being alone and loneliness that the cover of night amply provides and the details only add to that sense of being alone, the clock on high, the saddest lane.
In the midst of his being alone and almost reveling in it there is a sense that he wants to share it with somebody, though tightly and silently expressed the loneliness seems insistent on being heard, being communicated, being shared.
Don't you think?
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Talitha Mathew
(2/28/2008 1:26:00 PM) |
The strong rhythm and tight rhyme scheme - a villanelle, I think, - lead me to imagine that this poem has been set to music, or should be. The refrain, I have been one acquainted with the night, reminds me of Isaiah's description of the Son of man as 'a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.' The use of the word 'acquainted' suggests intimate, (though formal?) acquaintance with the rain and the dark side...and perhaps the poet/persona is the richer for it? There is a sharp contrast also with the monosyllables among which this trisyllabic word is set: I have walked out in rain and back in rain. Picture the man walking through the dark night against the driving rain, and at the last lifting his head to look at the sinking moon (the luminary clock) . Hardly an image one would soon forget.
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Mary Holifield
(9/12/2007 3:52:00 PM) |
I liked the poem.Could you explain the meaning? It sounds as if you broke up with someone and were feeling lonely. Good job! !
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Andrew Shields
(5/7/2007 10:57:00 PM) |
It is 'One luminary clock', not 'A luminary clock', and Frost spells good-bye 'good-by'. Just thought I'd point out the errors.
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Juvie Gubat
(3/15/2007 11:30:00 PM) |
This is a vivid depiction of loneliness and depression. Robert Frost is one who can actually 'concretize' the abstracts of humanity.
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Robert Howard
(7/31/2006 9:04:00 AM) |
I bow to Mr, Frost without ceasing for writing this magnificent poem. Thank you Mr. Frost from the bottom of my heart.
The structure of the poem is a model of perfection in terza rima form.
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