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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Vin ordinaire by Lawrence Lawrence His biography can help understand his work but it is not enough: his work exceeds his life. Lawrence (1885-1930) was a very isolated man but was also a visionary. He came to maturity at period of WWI‚ a time of political and cultural changes when the question “where is the western civilization going” was asked. Question imposed by the traumatic effects of mass destruction. And by the many changes in society: social classes‚ roles of men and women‚ how to find
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men and never seeing the past but in these poems they see it when they smell‚ feel and hear something so as we see the three poems that will make child hood having more appearance is half past two by u.a.fanthorpe and piano by Dh.lawerence and my parents kept me from children who were rough by Stephen spender. ’Half 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
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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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Analysis of "Piano" The speaker in "Piano" by D. H. Lawrence is proud to be a full grown man‚ yet he loves remembering his happy childhood; his nostalgic attitude causes him to feel guilty as if he had betrayed his present state of being. Through effective imagery‚ Lawrence is able (to describe an image) to help the reader understand the speaker’s nostalgic attitude. The diction and tone used in this poem reveal the speaker’s struggle as his feelings mix between his desire to be a man and his desire
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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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Compare and contrast the presentation of childhood memories in ‘half past two’‚ ‘piano’ and ‘my parents kept me from children who were rough’ focusing on the poet’s use of language‚ form and structure.’ The poems are different based on theme as piano has a theme of music taking on a memory. Half past two has a theme of life before not being able to tell time. Lastly my parents kept me from children who were rough have a theme of not being able to relive a bad memory. The three poems are contrasting
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Analysis: Piano. (D.H.Lawrence) D. H. Lawrence’s Piano shows a man experiencing nostalgia as he listens to a woman singing which reminds him of his childhood. The poem starts with the man hearing the soft singing of a woman which takes him on a mental journey down memory lane and he sees visions of his childhood flashing in front of him. The memory he focuses on is that of a small child who is sitting beneath a grand piano as his mother plays it‚ taking his mother’s elegant feet into his small
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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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D.H Lawrence’s poem “Piano” shows a man recalling his childhood as he is listening to a woman singing. This poem is laden with nostalgia and pathos; the speaker is longing for the simplicity and comfort of years gone by. This poem has a very slow‚ harmonious tone‚ which is accentuated by its structure and rhyme. It is also full of rich imagery that creates a vivid picture for the reader. It is a short work‚ consisting only of three stanzas‚ but Lawrence conveys the main theme of bitter-sweet nostalgia
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