Hello. There is a lack of context for your question to be answered efficiently, however, I will try to help you in the best possible way.
you must be referring to the poem "Acquainted with the Night" written by Robert Frost, since this poem shows a speaker wandering the streets late at night. We can see that the hour is amazed when he experiences the hours of the night during the last two verses of the poem, where the speaker realizes that he has been walking for a long time and that highlights the loneliness, the deprecation and the lack of sense of belonging that the speaker presents . He has no protection, no shelter, no one to wait for him, at night and for this reason, he wanders without realizing the time.
Okay so the time is around 1920 and it is a neighborhood but they didn't specify the exact location. And the exposition is when Mrs.Liz dies. Jemmie and her family moved to a new city. Jemmie moved next to Cass.
The speech this question is referring to is President Kennedy's Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs, May 25, 1961
Kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:
<em>"Yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. They have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. They send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. But where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in Vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)</em>
President Kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation.
