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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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 while “Hide and Seek”
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’Hide and Seek’ concerns a boy hiding cautiously whilst playing hide and seek with his peers. Gradually‚ he realises he has been abandoned‚ and fear overcomes him due to being isolated in the dark surroundings. The tone is incredibly certain and positive at the beginning. However‚ his confidence gradually fades away as the realisation of his abandonment occurs. The mood is analogous to the tone. At first‚ we can sense the excitement. This modifies to anxiety and nervousness towards the end. The poet
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Hide and Seek Ion the poem Hide and Seek‚ Vernon Scannell makes excellent use of all the sense to bring out the great excitement children usually experience whenever they play this ever- green game. The fact that short sentences are used in rapid succession and that the poem seems to have been written in one short stanza also contribute to this feeling. The persona is the one being sought‚ so he hides himself in the toolshed at the bottom of the garden making sure that his feet “aren’t sticking
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00004629150-489839008 0008 -1143000233616500-11430001650365Drama Response to A Doll’s House 0Drama Response to A Doll’s House -11430006793865Siham Shaddad Siham Shaddad A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen wrote the script of the play “A Doll’s House” in 1879 and was first performed shortly later that year in Royal Theatre in Copenhagen‚ Denmark. The three-act play depicts and criticizes the typical role of men and women nineteenth century marriage. The play was inspired by a real-life story
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"Hide-and-Seek" by" by: Robert Fulghum The topic of "Hide-and-Seek" is childhood and what the author remembers. He invents this topic by saying what he did in his childhood and how he remembers it. Fulghum tells us how innocent children are. They can play these games and just fun‚ but adults can’t play hide-and-seek‚ and they can’t just have fun. The author assumes that the audience understands how he feels. He comes straight out and tells the audience that he remembers once how much he
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Hide and Seek How does the poet bring the subject matter “to life” to the reader? The poem shows that the child is just starting out in life‚ and as the poem progresses‚ he learns something new about it; that he is actually vulnerable in the real world. The poet manages to bring the subject matter to life by using a set of language and structure that intensifies the reader’s participation in the poem. As seen‚ the poem consists of only one‚ long stanza‚ which simply creates the vision of a flow
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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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Change:GILBERT HOUSE‚ KITCHEN Jenna: Toast. I can make toast. Elena: It’s all about the coffee‚ Aunt Jenna. Jeremy: Is there coffee? Jenna: Your first day of school and I’m totally unprepared. Lunch money? Elena: I’m good. Jenna: Anything else? A number two pencil? What am I missing? Elena: Don’t you have a big presentation today? Jenna: I’m meeting with my thesis advisor at...now. Crap! Elena: Then go. We’ll be fine. You
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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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