I have been one acquainted with the night.

Robert Frost

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Topic

Night Depression Melancholy

Author

Robert Frost

Source

Acquainted with the Night

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Frost, Robert. "Acquainted with the Night." The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1928, st. 1, I. 1.

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Topic
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Author

Marcel Proust
Source
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Medium
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Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

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Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

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As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more.

Psalm 103:15-16

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Topic
Ephemeral nature of life Shortness of life The human condition
Source
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Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
Hebrew
Time
450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Psalm 103:15-16).