International Journal of English Literature and Culture
 

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 6(4), pp. 75-79, August, 2018

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2018.039

Review paper

The following research paper is an attempt to focus the theme of alienation, isolation and estrangement in Frost’s sonnet “Acquainted with the Night”. Apparently, a record of personal loneliness and isolation but a close reading reveals the implied sadness on the plight of alienated humanity. This universal expression of gloom and the plaintive note regarding indifference of modern man turns this personal lyric into an elegy of dying humanity. It has been analyzed how an individual reacts towards the frosty silence of surrounding and mechanical indifference of the fellowmen in the scientifically advanced world. The etherized existence in the global village of modern technology has transformed the world into a gloomy and isolated place where robotlike creatures are roaming about.

Keywords: Alienation, Estrangement, Acquainted, Isolation, Humanity, Plaintive
 

Cite This Article As: Naqvi, S.B., (2018). THEME OF ALIENATION IN “ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT”. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 6(4): 75-79

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