Compare and contrast how feelings of love or presented in The Manhunt and Nettles

The Language used in “the manhunt”  is very negative emotive language which relate to healing and damage “the fractured rudder of his shoulder blade” The emotive Language that Simon uses in this poem shows how that even though he’s damaged and very unpredictable “unexploded mine” she is still willing to try and heal him, this shows how much she loves him and is willing to put up with to try and save there dying love, he uses military words to show her battle to try and save him due to him be physically and mentally messed up, the reason Simon uses military words is to show how difficult the struggle is but how willing she is to this for him which again shows her love more him. Similarly in “nettles” its uses damaging words and is about someone in this case the farther, trying to recover the damage done to the one they love “soothed him till his paint was not so raw, and then I took my hook and honed the blade” this shows that the fathers first instinct is to seek revenge which shows how protective he is and also how much he loves his son, Veron uses military words through-out this poem which is very similar to manhunt “Slashed in fury with it, Till not a nettle in that fierce parade” again this shows his efforts and the battle  he had fighting what hurt his soon. In both poems very similar emotive and military language is used to show both of their efforts for the ones they love.

In the poem “the manhunt” its very depressing and sad and has a lot of negative language “the hurt, of his grazed heart” The fact that its in first person shows that Simon was trying to create sympathy for her, it also helps show her love for him a lot more due to it being her saying it which makes us believe it a lot more, plus the slow pace of the poem also shows her patience for his love. In the poem “Nettles” the tone of the poem is very quick and shows passion from the farther to kill the nettles “stood up right no more. I lit a funeral pyre to burn the fallen dead” Vernon use an A,b,a,b rhyme scheme to help increase the pace of the peom to help show his aggression and to show how quick he does everything to try and kill the nettles which hurt his son, this shows how passionate and how much he loves his son and how he wants to protect him from getting hurt again in the future which also shows how caring he is. Both poems have a similar tones but are also very different in pace.