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    Half Past TwoPiano and Refugee Mother and Child share a common theme of childhood. In Half Past Two‚ the author talks about remembers about the feeling of simplicity and timelessness during his childhood. In Piano‚ the poet expresses his feelings towards the loss of childhood in comparison to his present. In Refugee Mother and Child talks about the loss of a child and the misery they all have to go through. In Half Past Two‚ by U.A. Fanthorpe‚ we are taken into the past from the very start with

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    Compare and contrast the way the childhood is presented in "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence‚ "My parents kept me from children who were rough" by Stephen Spender and "Half-past two" by U. A. Fanthorpe In all three poems the poets present childhood in different and exceptional way. In "Piano"‚ childhood is presented in a very idealistic way. The poet is remembering the good old times when he was sitting under the piano and listening to his mother tenderly singing a powerful song. He remembers his loving

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    childhood is presented in the poems “Piano” and “Half-past Two” The theme of childhood is presented in the poem “Piano” and “Half-past two”. The poem Half-past two‚ written by U.A Fanthorpe‚ is all about how vulnerable children and their childish innocence. In both poems the poets present childhood in different and exceptional way. In "Piano"‚ childhood is presented in a very idealistic way. The poet is remembering the good old times when he was sitting under the piano and listening to his mother tenderly

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    Hide and Seek & Half-past Two Compare how the theme of childhood is presented in the poems Half Past Two and Hide and Seek. The theme childhood is presented in both the poems but it’s presented differently‚ it’s presented more like a fantasy story in Half Past Two while in Hide and Seek it’s presented more realistically. Vernon Scanell tells in details about one game of Hide and Seek when he was a kid so perhaps he addresses himself as the little kid while U.A.Fanthorpe was a teacher so she perhaps

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    Half Past TwoHalf Past Two’ is a poem in which Fanthorpe describes how a young child is given a detention for an unspecified misdemeanor and is forgotten by his teacher. Fanthorpe draws on her experience as a teacher to describe the scene as seen through the child’s eyes. The Title of the poem tells me a lot of information even before I read the poem. The information it puts across is that: A boy is told to stay behind until ’Half Past Two’ but this has no-meaning to him because he has no concept

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    situation. Due to the slow pace‚ the boy’s imagination is widely stretched and has drifted off into his own world where he interprets basic ideas that he encounters such as looking at a simple clock and expressing it as ‘Clock face‚ little eyes and two long legs for walking’ He describes the clock as an animated object which proves of his naïve thinking. He also starts the poem with ‘Once upon a time’ Which is a typical starting point of a child’s fairy tale‚ and most importantly there is the inclusion

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    Half-past Two” and “Piano” both have the theme of childhood. There are some similarities in these two poems. “Half past Two” is about a young child who has done something naughty. His teacher punishes him by making him stay behind until half past two. However‚ being cross‚ she forgets he has not yet learnt to tell the time. Thus‚ his concept of time doesn’t yet include numerals. He knows he is punished but cannot understand why. During his detention‚ he recalls the time modules he knows

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    Half Past Two I will use the method of explaining every stanza to write about this poem in detail. ’Half Past Two’ is a poem in which Fanthorpe describes how a young child is given a detention for an unspecified misdemeanour and is forgotten by his teacher. Fanthorpe draws on her experience as a teacher to describe the scene as seen through the child’s eyes. The Title of the poem tells me a lot of information even before I read the poem. The information it puts across is that: A boy is told to

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    English Literature Coursework Prayer Before Birth‚ The Tyger‚ and Half-past Two are poems which explore encounters between the speaker‚ or a character‚ and a force that is greater than he is. How do the three poets develop and contemplate this experience? Prayer before Birth‚ The Tyger and Half-past Two are three poems which explore an encounter between the character and a force much greater than he is. The first‚ by Louis MacNeice‚ uses imagery of religion and innocence to present God as a higher

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    Contrasting images of childhood in “Half-past Two” and “Hide and Seek” These poems are about two different children‚ each having their own experience of something new that is not always welcome. These Two poems are both looking back on a childhood experience that the poets have experience‚ and been marked after their discovery of this experience‚ thinking they understood the world but finding out they didn’t. However there is a major difference in this poem as “Half-past Two” is a strange and surreal poem

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