Similarities Between Nettles And Sister Maude

The two poems which I am studying are Nettles by Vernon Scannell and Sister Maude by Christina Rossetti . Both of the poems are based on relationship. Nettles is the relationship between father and son . The father who is trying to protect his son from hurting himself in a nettle bed . In Sister Maude the relationship is between sisters and how betrayal can rip a family apart.
Nettles by Vernon Scannell is a poem about the love of father and son. The poem is about the feelings of the poet towards the son and the nettles. He becomes very angry because the nettles hurt his son, the anger and frustration the poet has towards these nettles is seen as the Nettles being soldiers, we know this as the poet refers the nettles being ‘recruits’ and he says ' that regiment of spite'. The

, it also shows that her mother was strict and really seem to care about their family reputation ,unlike her father who does not seemed to be bothered "who told my father of my dear?" which shows that her dad is consistent and reliable man , and she answers her questions saying "oh but Maude" which also tells us who told her parents about her lover. In the poem it is shown very clearly that the narrator hates her sister. This shows us the sisters had an evil bond, then she starts describing the dead body of the lover saying "cold he lies, as cold as stone" The narrator feels so sorry for the lover death and wishes her sister hadn't killed the lover and suggests her lover didn't find her sister attractive we know this as the narrator says ‘Though I had not been born at all, He'd never have looked at