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About the poem 'Nettles' :)
And then I lit
A funeral pyre to burn the fallen dead,
But in two weeks the busy sun and rain
Had called up tall recruits behind the shed:
My son would often feel sharp wounds again.
* Vernon Scannell was the poet of this poem.
* Born 1922- 2007 in Lincolnshire.
* Been a poet all of his life.
* Served in the army in the middle east.
* Was a boxer.
* Lived in Yorkshire.
* Died at the age of 85
In this poem a father hacks down a bed of nettles that have stung his 3 year old son.
Images of war and pain are used throughout of this poem as the father cuts down a 'regiment' of 'green spears' (nettles) that have hurt his son.
However his victory is short lived as the nettles re appear two weeks later.
We soothed him till his pain was not so raw.
At last he offered us a watery grin,
And then I took my billhook, honed the blade
And went outside and slashed in fury with it
Till not a nettle in that fierce parade
Stood upright any more.
The poem "Nettles"
By Lia Skinner
&
Kelly Neal
&
Ryan Hope
The poem 'Nettles uses metaphors thorughout the duration of the poem. Firstly the poem says "Green spears" this is a use of a metaphor. This suggests that the stinging nettles give a off a sharpe spear-like pain. Secondly the poem describes the stinging nettles as a "Regiment", meaning a typeof army. This emphasises that there is a big bed of nettles that the father seems to think that they are working together!
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