Analysis Of Night Nurse By Micheal Earl Craig

The author gets visited by the night nurse. The night nurse is checking up on the speaker but the speaker thinks she is doing something better. The speaker is fascinated by the night nurse. In the poem "Night Nurse" by poet Micheal Earl Craig the author uses line breaks and imagery to convey the speakers fascination with the night nurse. Line breaks like "barely opened my left eye, am looking through the slightest slit." are used to show that the visit continuse to catch the speakers attention. The author uses imagery like "her ankle looks like a polished walnut." to show that the speaker is focused on the night nurse.

The poet tells a lot about the poem in the first line. When the speaker says "the night nurse is different" this tells the audiance that the poem is of a creepy mysterious tone.You can also tell that this poem will be about a nurse.Something else you can figure out is that the speaker is someone who is a patient at a hospital.The speaker also uses a metaphor "at a japanese tea garden at night, in the rain, that is supposed to be closed, that is supposed to stay locked. ' ' The speaker uses this metaphor to convey the privacy of the moment.

In the poem the author uses theme to convey the message in the poem. The speaker is fascinated with the nurse. The nurse comes in the speakers room to check on him and the speaker imagines she is writting a sonnet. "The night nurse puts her foot on the radiator and braces her clipboard on her knee, she appears to take down a few notes. I imagine she is working on a sonnet." This shows the theme which is the littlest things can be the most