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