Essay Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost Sometimes a poem can have an immediate hold on us although were not sure why Though it sounds contradictory a powerful vagueness like a heavy mist engulfs us when we read or hear the words This is the feeling I had the first time I read Robert Frosts Acquainted With the Night In fact I was so captured by the poem that I memorized it However I never took the time to formally analyzed it to understand what makes it so powerful So Ive decided to thor