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An Explication on Loneliness: Robert Frost and Ezra Pound Everyone has felt lonely at one time or another, regardless of their magnitude of wealth, size of family, extension of the friendship circle, or position in a crowd. It crawls on your skin like a shadow, quickly making it’s way into your heart. Once you have experienced this alienation you will never forget it, and you can never adequately explain the depth of it. Actually, there are some gifted poets who can express what seems too big for words. Robert Frost’s Acquainted with the Night and Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro use marvelous imagery, brilliantly giving voice to this bottomless feeling. In Frost’s Acquainted with the Night, he uses an aimless walk in the dark of the night as a metaphor for the loneliness that he knows so well. In the first line he states that he was “one acquainted with the night,” taking special care to use the word “one” to describe his place in the night. As the song says, “One is the loneliest number.” In the second line he adds rain to the description- twice- walking i