Notes in the margin of my book, defacing the text, made it hard to read, but I could decipher some of my scribblings outlining the way the change had occurred. ... My notes had become almost indecipherable as I turned to '"'Nightfall'"'. ... The yearning is heightened by the number of single syllable words in the final stanzas, such as her realisation that '"'your night and day are one'"'. ...
In Nurse's Song, the reader is able to relate to a person watching children play, and almost share the speaker's sense of uneasiness about the coming night. ... The speaker also shows her experience through her concern for the children, as night approaches in the second stanza. ... Important to note in both Nurse's Song and The Divine Image is, once again, how Blake creates human characters for readers to identify with. ...
In the last two lines, the speaker ends with the note that states "let those who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.... The speaker almost shames the feelings that she presented in the previous stanzas in the last lines, where she basically states that if it makes it easier for you to get through the night to hold this grudge on true love and those who enjoy it, so be it. ...
