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Thistles” and “tall Nettles Thistles” and “tall Nettles The poems “Tall Nettles” by Edward Thomas and “Thistles” by Ted Hughes contain similar yet different themes. Both of them contain not one but many themes of their own. “The Tall Nettles” contains a theme of abandonment, a theme of nature fighting back against man, and man-made.