Post 11 | Comparison

I chose to compare and contrast the song “House of Cards” by Tyler Shaw and “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost. The theme of Frost’s poem is about the internal struggle and “the ‘night’ located in the speaker’s mind or soul” (Meyer 711). I wanted to compare it to the second and third line in Shaw’s song, “My mind was filled with doubt / I long to feel alive.” Throughout the song it is made known that there is an internal struggle for the narrator but for different reason than the poem’s narrator. The song’s narrator was struggling with a relationship while the poem does not mention a specific “evil”. Frost uses the imagery of “night” to portray the darkness that the narrator is experiencing. So although the works are similar in theory, they are still very different.