Homework due Tuesday

Watch this video of Simon Armitage talking about his poem "Manhunt":

As a comment on this post, answer the following question:

What is Manhunt about?

Homework due Friday 1st March

Our focus has no shifted from "Lord of the Flies" to poetry. In today's lesson, we studied the peom "Nettles" by Vernon Scannell and focused on the relationship between father and son. Some of the key points we discussed were:

• The naivety of the father in believing he can protect the son from the evils of the world
• The father's futile anger as manifested by his destruction of the nettle bed
• The son's loss of innocence (as represented by the "watery grin" which could imply his smile is no longer innocent and is forever blurred and tarnished by the pain he has now experienced
• The strength of the protective bond between father and son
• The son's reliance on his father for protection

Your homework, due on Friday, is to answer the following question.

How does Scannell use “Nettles” to show the anguish of parenthood?

I'm expecting 200-400 words or around one to two sides in your exercise book. Make sure you use quotations.