Darkness Essay

Reflection:These poems make you think about darkness and how it is a part of our every day lives. Some may see darkness as a forgein place and other may see it as home, a place where they are comfortable. Everyone is different when they think about it and thats why you see different views in both these poems. 
Prompt: The poems below are concerned with darkness and night. Read each poem carfully. Then, in a well writen essay compare and contrast the poems, analyzing the significance of dark or night in each. In your essay, consider elements such as point of view, imagery and structure.

Esssay: 
                 Darkness is something that everyone has to face every-once and a while. Everyone has to face it even if they don't like the dark or it is not a familiar place. In the peoms "We grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickenson and "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost, these both have a ton that describes darkness as a time for one to be lost and confused; and the imagery conveys that the message of being lost in the night  and the darkness. 
                 In "We grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson tone and imagery show that the darkness and night show hopelessness but eventually one gets used to it and we can find the way though the darkness and depression.  In the poem it says " we uncertain stop for newness of the night" this shows the uncertainty of the night and how scared you can be, then it says " fix our vision to the dark" which shows that a person can find comfort in even the darkest darkness. This poem shows darkness and a ways to be okay with it, while "Aquatinted with the Night" by Robert Frost tells actions of the darkness and feelings to go along with. 
                  "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost uses actions, imagery and ton to convey that the darkness is something that a person can become accustomed to. "I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain." This is a quote from the poem that shows actions that convey adjustments to the darkness and depressed feelings. " One luminary clock against the sky" shows imagery  and the clock symbolizes the time that people have that is depleting, that the time is running out. The tone of this poem is less hopeful than"We grow Accustomed to the Dark" because this poem doesn't show any hopefulness.
                    The two poems "We grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson and "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost both use tone and imagery to convey that darkness is representation of depression and not getting anywhere in life. One poem has a light at the end of the tunnel while the other one the persons life is running out of time. These poems are similar in begging tone but tun 180 and go completely different ways by the end.