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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Prayer Before Birth By: Louis MacNeice Context Written during the Second World War‚ more specifically in 1944. During 1944 London was being bombed to a large extent and as such it was a time of fear for the future. Content An unborn child expresses its fear of what the world can do to the innocent. It does this through the form of a prayer (possibly to God) in which it pleas to be preserved from the dangers that future on earth might hold‚ including its own corruption
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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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Louis MacNeice expresses his strong views on the human life by writing a poem through an unborn child’s voice. He starts off by asking God to protect him from various dangerous animals that could harm him such as blood sucking bats and land rats. The poet uses vivid language through the child’s fears through words such as hear me and not come near me which also rhyme. Furthermore the poet tries to emphasize the unborn fears through metaphors such as human race may with tall walls wall me‚ being
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Half Past Two‚ Piano 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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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 Two ’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 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 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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Christine Coleman PSY-260 Monday‚ August 19‚ 2013 Life before Birth Hello‚ my name is Christine Coleman. I just recently like 8 weeks ago had the most precious little baby girl ever! She is in the picture at the top of my page. I watched the video life before birth and let me just say before I watched that video I never for one minute thought about what actually takes place inside a female. I mean I knew like the basics I guess you could say‚ but the way that they described the
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