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    Compare How Childhood Is Presented in Blessings and Half Past Two

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    The document compares how childhood is presented in the poems "Hide and Seek" and "Half Past Two". Both poems use similar tones to evoke nostalgia and a sense of childhood. They employ techniques like compound words, imperatives, and enjambment to portray how time is fluid and skewed from a child's perspective. However, the poems differ structurally - "Half Past Two" uses 11 stanzas of 3 lines each to represent stages of development, while "Hide and Seek" has a single stanza with an irregular rhyme scheme to depict the disorganized nature of childhood.

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    The document compares how childhood is presented in the poems "Hide and Seek" and "Half Past Two". Both poems use similar tones to evoke nostalgia and a sense of childhood. They employ techniques like compound words, imperatives, and enjambment to portray how time is fluid and skewed from a child's perspective. However, the poems differ structurally - "Half Past Two" uses 11 stanzas of 3 lines each to represent stages of development, while "Hide and Seek" has a single stanza with an irregular rhyme scheme to depict the disorganized nature of childhood.

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    The document compares how childhood is presented in the poems "Hide and Seek" and "Half Past Two". Both poems use similar tones to evoke nostalgia and a sense of childhood. They employ techniques like compound words, imperatives, and enjambment to portray how time is fluid and skewed from a child's perspective. However, the poems differ structurally - "Half Past Two" uses 11 stanzas of 3 lines each to represent stages of development, while "Hide and Seek" has a single stanza with an irregular rhyme scheme to depict the disorganized nature of childhood.

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    Compare How Childhood Is Presented in Blessings and Half Past Two

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    The document compares how childhood is presented in the poems "Hide and Seek" and "Half Past Two". Both poems use similar tones to evoke nostalgia and a sense of childhood. They employ techniques like compound words, imperatives, and enjambment to portray how time is fluid and skewed from a child's perspective. However, the poems differ structurally - "Half Past Two" uses 11 stanzas of 3 lines each to represent stages of development, while "Hide and Seek" has a single stanza with an irregular rhyme scheme to depict the disorganized nature of childhood.

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    Compare how childhood is presented in Hide and Seek and Half Past Two?

    Hide and Seek is a poem written by Vernon Scannell about a child who hides and
    then once he/she emerge everyone has left. This poem can be taken in both a
    literal and metaphorical sense, as it describes how in life if one waits too long to
    take an opportunity it may not be there. Half- Past Two is a poem written by U A
    Fanthorpe about a young student whose teacher forgot about him after setting
    him a detention. This essay will compare the way that childhood is presented in
    both by considering:

    In both Hide and Seek and Half-Past Two the poets use similar underlying tones.
    In Half-Past Two there is an image of confusion, which, is juxtaposed with the
    child trying to go about his daily routine. The child goes through a series of times
    like “Gettinguptime.” The use of compound words helps to maintain the
    underlying tone of childishness and youth and evokes a sense of nostalgia. The
    compound words help to elongate the time that the child feels whilst in
    detention. The poet in Hide and Seek evokes a sense of nostalgia in the title. This
    is because Hide and Seek is a game often played by children in their youth. The
    narrative voice’s use of imperatives like “Call out,” helps to remind the reader
    when they were younger and adults used to boss them around. This aides to
    build tension, which creates a sense of childhood as it reminds people telling
    them what to do.

    Both authors use enjambment to convey a sense of how time is fluid and skewed
    in childhood. In Half-Past Two when talking about times that the boy “knew”
    there is no form of punctuation at the end of the line. This portrays how time is
    fluid and can be warped in a child’s mind. This is furthered by the boy being
    unaware of the time and cannot read clocks as he “couldn’t click its language.”
    Furthermore the use of personification of the clock conveys a sense of childhood
    as little children often give inanimate objects emotions and feeling. Likewise, in
    Hide and Seek the poet uses enjambment in reference to the children “searching”
    for the hidden child. The continuation into the next line evokes a sense of
    childhood as it conveys the self-centered opinions of the child, as he/she believes
    they should be the center of attention. Both writers employ enjambment to
    convey childhood.

    However, structurally both poems differ. In Half-Past Two the eleven stanzas are
    each three lines mirroring the title, which is three words and eleven letters. This
    conveys the somewhat structural stages of growth and development of a child.
    Showing how the child lives in a world governed by time and constraints as
    he/she has memorized “All the important times.” The use of the word “All”
    shows how there are many times that are important and essential too the child.
    In contrast, in Hide and Seek the author uses one long stanza with a disturbed
    rhyme scheme showing how in childhood not all moments can be governed by
    time. This conveys a sense of the chaotic and disorganized nature of growing up.

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