Acquainted with the Night

Robert Frost gives us a sort of dark poem with Acquainted with the Night. The speaker talks of life with no right or wrong. Frost writes, "I have walked out in the rain - and back in rain." I interpret this line to mean "I have been to hell and back." The speaker is careful to say that he has been acquainted with the night, not friends. Frost uses indifferent language throughout the poem. In addition to the saying acquainted, the speaker talks of dropping his eyes when passing the watchman. The speaker tries to show what this world is like with "neither wrong nor right." Initially, I believed the "luminary clock" was the moon, but after some more thought, I believe that this luminary clock is some all-knowing being, maybe God. I think that the luminary clock might not be God specifically though because the speaker talks of this world with no right or wrong, and God is love and goodness. Thus, I believe the luminary clock is just a neutral omniscient being that is proclaiming there will be a time with when the world is just as indifferent.