Ihave been one acquainted with the night.
i have walked out in rain-and back in rain.
i have outwalked the furthest city light.
i have looked down the saddest city lane.
i have passed by the watchman on his beat and dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
read the lines from frost’s “aquainted with the night” then write a brief paragraph discussing frost’s use of personification in these lines.

By using personification, Frost portrays his own mood.

Explanation:

“Acquainted with the Night” is a poem by Robert Frost. The main theme in the poem is that of isolation. The speaker is walking down the street. He feels lonely, and is dissatisfied. Frost uses personification in the very first line -'I have been one acquainted with the night.' As personification is the attribution of human characteristic to an object which is not human, 'the night' is, in this context, given the human ability to make friends. What the speaker is trying to convey is that he had already experienced darkness and troubles in life - this is something familiar to him. Similarly, the author states that he has 'looked down the saddest city lanes'. In reality, city lanes can be neither happy nor sad. With the use of personification, however, the man demonstrates his own feelings at the moment. He feels lonely, and everything around him seems dark and sad.

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explanation:

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)