We Grow Accustomed To The Dark Night Emily Dickinson Analysis
Rico Santos
English 2 (H)
Mr. Emigh
11 September, 2014
Dark-Night
In the poems “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” by Emily Dickenson and “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost, both poets discuss the mysteries within the darkness. However, Dickenson uses an optimistic tone to suggest that darkness is only an illusion and can be broken from while; Frost uses a tone of depression to reinforce the idea that there is true solidarity in darkness.
Darkness is presented as an illusion that instills fear within the human heart, however, as we “fit our vision to the Dark” we begin to escape the hold that darkness and fear has on the mind (L.7). Dickenson uses an optimistic tone to reveal that although darkness creates uncertainty, there
English 2 (H)
Mr. Emigh
11 September, 2014
Dark-Night
In the poems “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” by Emily Dickenson and “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost, both poets discuss the mysteries within the darkness. However, Dickenson uses an optimistic tone to suggest that darkness is only an illusion and can be broken from while; Frost uses a tone of depression to reinforce the idea that there is true solidarity in darkness.
Darkness is presented as an illusion that instills fear within the human heart, however, as we “fit our vision to the Dark” we begin to escape the hold that darkness and fear has on the mind (L.7). Dickenson uses an optimistic tone to reveal that although darkness creates uncertainty, there