Nettles and born yesterday

Question 1

Content

Answer 1

Adult tries/fails to protect a child

Poet has a realsitic view on how the child will experience the world

Question 2

Relationship

Answer 2

Parent and child

Dads friend has written a poem about his daughter

Question 3

Form

Answer 3

First person
Chronological no separate stanzas
repetition “underemphasis, enthralled, called”

Question 4

Language

Answer 4

words about pain and war "regiment, "wounds"
Imagery powerful and natural
cynical words
less-dramatic
"running off a spring of love"