narrative poem which reflects on the consequences of nature on a group of people; the narrator, his parents and brothers. The poet attempts to put across a varying universal natural phenomenon adopting a typified poor African household that is worried by a blind night rain. The word “rain” can be variously used and interpreted as there is rain of Fortune, rain of misfortune, rain of poverty and physical rainfall. In this analysis however, the less complex manner of appreciating J. P. Clark’s “Night Rain” is presenting it purely as physical/ordinary night rain in tune with our theoretical fram