Love Poetry Nettles

* A father is protecting his son from the dangers of a dark menacing world in which nothing and no one can be trusted. Nature will attack you, be cut down, grow back and fight you again…just as the military will hunt you down and find you if you leave without consent. Scannell is protecting his son from a world he hates and fears.

* A father is protecting his son from the dangers of a dark menacing world in which nothing and no one can be trusted. Nature will attack you, be cut down, grow back and fight you again…just as the military will hunt you down and find you if you leave without consent. Scannell is protecting his son from a world he hates and fears.

The relationship

The relationship

* Scannell’s poem is a negative. It forces us to notice that there is danger in all things. It is a poem where physical hurts trigger memories of mental scars. Scannell sees war in everything even in a clump of nettles.

* Scannell’s poem is a negative. It forces us to notice that there is danger in all things. It is a poem where physical hurts trigger memories of mental scars. Scannell sees war in everything even in a clump of nettles.

Is the poem negative or positive?

Is the poem negative or positive?

* But in two weeks the busy sun and rain Had called up tall recruits behind the shed: this shows Ambiguity (one things having more than one meaning) in this the ambiguity is you cannot fight nature and that war is endless and that more new will be sent to replace the “fallen once” looking on the aspect of what is the point of war.

* My son would often feel sharp wounds again this is either trying to tell us that one of his sons has lost his life in this endless game of war or that there is no point cutting the nettles down as they will only grow back.

* But in two weeks the busy sun and rain Had called up tall recruits behind the shed: this shows Ambiguity (one things having more than one meaning) in this the ambiguity is you cannot fight nature and...