Compare and Contrast help?

Question

I have to do an essay comparing any Robert Frost poem to any other work of art.

I decided to compare Frost's "Acquainted with the Night" with the movie adaptation of Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire"

Now I can make a lot of connects between the two save for one thing:

The theme/meaning.

If anyone could suggest a theme that is present in both works of art it would be much appreciated, please and thank you.

Acquainted with the Night

By Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night.

I have walked out in rain --and back in rain.

I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.

I have passed by the watchman on his beat

And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet

When far away an iterrupted cry

Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;

And further still at an unearthly height

One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

I have been one acquainted with the night.

Answer 1

Common themes:

Darkness of the mind/soul/night / Environment in which the book/poem is set reflects the mood and inner turmoil of the characters.

Isolation - being/feeling outcast from society. Feeling of desolation, inevitability of ruin.