Nettles Analysis
- Created by: ratcliffz110
- Created on: 02-05-16 14:04
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- Nettles
- Imagery
- War
- Army
- "Regiment of spite"
- "Green spears" Suggests the nettles have weaponry
- Army
- Pain
- "White blisters beaded on his tender skin"
- "Often feel sharp wounds"
- "Pain was not so raw"
- War
- War and conflict used as extended metaphor
- Father-Son relationship
- Irony is involved because a patch of nettles is called a bed but it is not a place to rest
- Emotive language
- "Watery grin" He has tears in his eyes from the pain but he is trying to hold them in
- "Slashed in fury" Angry that he has let his son get hurt but he realizes he can't protect his son from everything
- Suffering is a part of life and the nettles are a symbol of suffering
- Child must suffer in order to learn
- The father should have known that he cannot prevent suffering by destroying something
- Revenge is futile
- Nettles are portrayed as violent within the first 3 lines
- Made up of one stanza
- People try to arrange things after a bad incident so that it will never happen again
- You can't protect someone from everything
- Father should have realized that destroying the nettles was pointless as they will just grow back
- The nettles are given human characteristics
- Imagery
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