Night Sweat

Question 1

What kind of poem is it

Answer 1

CONFESSIONALIST - like a monologue

Question 2

Content

Answer 2

Liés alone in bed, mental issues, feels as if he is a burden towards his wife

Question 3

Interpretation

Answer 3

Horrifying and nightmare like image of mental health and anxiety

Question 4

F and s

Answer 4

Shakespearean and Petrarchan
Couplet line 13 and 14 - impact of burning, false sense of closure

Volta 22 - glimmer of hope is his wife

First quatrain of each half of poem swapped - confusion and disorientation mimicking speaker’s state of mind