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Compare how poets use language to present feelings in 'The Manhunt' and one other poem from Relationships

By: Sitora Soxibova

The last sentence in 'The Manhunt' creates an ambiguous ending to the poem as the reader is left to assume if she succeeded in the hunt to finding her partner. The word 'close' suggests that she had to wait a long time and was patient with her husband to come so far. However it also implies that despite her almost completing her search, it means that even then she wasn't able to come to the root of it and therefore creates a solemn tone.

Like wise with 'Nettles', war and military imagery is used to illustrate his son's pain of falling into a nettle bush. Scannel depicts the nettles as a 'regiment' and 'tall recruits', hinting at a deeper metaphor about his resentment towards war and the concern to protect his son until he realizes that his son "would often feel sharp wounds again"

'Nettles' also has a similar ending in the way that both characters accept that their attempts of protecting their beloved is hopeless.

In the last stanza, the father concludes that there is no point of nurturing his child as the world will hurt them anyway.

In both 'The Manhunt' and 'Nettles', the characters are suffering mentally and emotionally as a consequence to some kind of war.

'The Manhunt' is written through the perspective of the wife of an injured solider who has returned home from war . Throughout the poem, Laura portrays her husband as weak and frail by using varied metaphors and similes such as "damaged porcelain collar bone" and "parachute silk of his punctured lung". The word 'porcelain' shows his body to be like delicate china and 'silk' creates imagery that he is fragile and easily damaged. By describing her husband in such a way, it gives the impression that Laura wants to protect him from any further danger as he is so frail.

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