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Poems, Nothing is said explicitly about what the boy was doing, hinted at…

- - - - Parents aren't perfect - seen through
    - - Shocking the "hate him" alliteration - emphasises the emothion
        "ogre"
      - Makes us negative towards the slap through:
        Age of child - explicit - anything at that age is made to make us feel emmotive
        Experience the feelings of the child before cause - we make up our mind before the reason
        Makes us hate the dad - then makes us like him leaves us thinking violence is the problem as only one to blam - seen as barrier to happiness
  - - - At the end of the first three lines there is a repetition of negative emotions, (could this be epistrophe - not same word so don't know) emphasises the effect that the slap has had
        Also serves to diminish our view of the slap as all positive emotions are presented as fickle while negative emotions stay
    - - Metamorphosed - ugly and unnatural transformation
        
        Links to poem of violence - negatively viewed as causing pain, link to animals implies loss of moral high ground of parent to slap the child
        
        Emphasised by the endstop with the comma on howls
    - - Alliteration of recently relaxed emphasises by linking fickleness of happy state. And then contrast as sound stops on "now", tight is seperated from fickleness, seen as more permanent, violence can't be undone.
    - - 3rd Stanza
        
        4th stanza
        
        You cannot understand, not yet,
        
        the hurt your easy tears can scald him with,
        
        nor guess the wavering hidden behind that mask.
        
        This fierce man longs to lift you, curb your sadness
        
        with piggy-back or bull fight, anything,
        
        but dare not ruin the lessons you should learn.