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Further Reading
Amano, Kyoko, ‘‘Frost’s ‘Acquainted with the Night,’’’
inExplicator, Vol. 65, No. 1, Fall 2006, pp. 39–42.
Amano bases his analysis of this poem on a
theory promoted by Richard Poirer, that
many of Frost’s poems are really about the
process of writing poetry. Amano suggests
that the night in ‘‘Acquainted with the Night’’
is not a conventional symbol of grief or death
but rather it stands for the formal elements of
poetry that the poet confronts and explores as
he composes his poetry.
Frost, Robert, ‘‘The Figure a Poem Makes,’’ inComplete
Poems of Robert Frost, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston,
1967, pp. v–viii.
In this essay that serves as a preface to his
collected poems, Frost explains the impor-
tant function of a poem, that it moves from
delight to wisdom and that it is of a single
piece and action like ice is while melting on
astove.
Stanlis, Peter J.,Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher,
ISI Books, 2007.
Stanlis explains the intellectual basis of the
poet’s philosophy and poetics. He explains
Frost’s responses to current ideas in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and
sets each of Frost’s beliefs within an historical
context.Acquainted with the Night