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Nettles

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Mind Map on Nettles, created by eilishhardy on 05/05/2014.
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Nettles
  1. Feeling and Attitudes
    1. Anger
      1. fathers angry at nettles which hurt son
      2. Revenge
        1. he attacks nettles and tries in a rage to destroy them
        2. Frustration
          1. he cant permanently remove the cause of his sons pain, and knows that his son will be hurt again and he cant stop it
          2. Tenderness
            1. he comforts and takes care of his hurt son
          3. Form
            1. narrative poem with first person narrator
              1. emphasises that poem talking about personal experiences
              2. use of enjambment makes sound like story being told to reader
              3. Structure
                1. goes through story in straightforward way
                  1. introducing events in order
                    1. fighting metaphor all way through
                    2. Military Language
                      1. war imagery used throughout poem
                        1. nettles personified as vicious soldiers who attack boy are defeated by dad but then risen again
                        2. 'spears'
                          1. weapon with sharp point as well as the stalk of a plant
                          2. 'regiment of spite'
                            1. personification of the nettles- makes them sound like an army and suggests they attacked the boy on purpose
                            2. 'honed the blade and went outside and slashed in fury'
                              1. juxtaposition of his careful preparation and his furious attacks
                                1. emphasises sharp contrast in his reactions
                              2. 'fierce parade' 'funeral pyre...fallen dead'
                                1. nettles are like soldiers killed in battle
                                2. 'called up tall recruits'
                                  1. ''called up'-being ordered to join army
                                    1. suggests they'll never be defeated as there will always be more nettles
                                3. Painful Language
                                  1. narrator gives precise images of boy's pain
                                    1. also links to general pains of growing up
                                    2. 'blisters beaded on his tender skin'
                                      1. poem focuses in on boy's pain and his physical vunerability
                                      2. 'pain was not so raw ... watery grin'
                                        1. he can't take away pain entirely
                                        2. 'often feel sharp wounds again'
                                          1. seems to suggest not only physical wounds but emotional pain we all go through in life
                                          2. 'slashed in pain'
                                            1. angry that something has hurt and caused pain to his son
                                          3. 'bed'
                                            1. suggests comfort and safety- he sees this as ironic term
                                            2. 'stood upright any more.'
                                              1. caesura-thinks its going to be okay
                                                1. battle to protect his child
                                                2. 'my son would often feel sharp wounds again'
                                                  1. can't always protect son
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