Comparing Hide and Seek, Half past Two and Leaving school :: English Literature

Comparing Hide and Seek, Half past Two and Leaving schoolFor this essay I am going to compare the nomenclature in three poems andhow they show the persons feelings. These poems are Hide and SeekHalf past Two and Leaving School.Hide and seek is written in a 3rd person perspective. The language isdescriptive, simple, atmospheric and child same(p) in the way that it usespersonification (giving things human names). The poem suggests that itis in a 3rd person perspective by the use of the password you at the endof the poem. The end of the poem is also very sad and sole(a), enhancedby the darkness described. All these factors together produce a dark,lonely and upsetting mood, these factors are easily shown by thechilds character which is soft, small, frightened and easily upsetfrom the description that we get.Half past Two is also written in a third person perspective. Thelanguage and viewpoint of the entire poem is that of a young childspoint of view, this is shown in the language. Th e language shows thisby its simplicity, its child like words and the way that the writerputs words together with no spaces.The language also has some rhyming words in it. The childs characteris simple, he knows what he knows, but thats it and he showsinnocence in the way he thinks. The mood is not really set because thedescription does not include the weather, of a descriptive setting butwe get a confused and scared mood from the confused child. Thestructure is simple with some italic writing to create speech pattern andthe writer uses 3 lined stanzas.Leaving School is written in a first person perspective and thelanguage is a lot more complicated but still easily understood thelanguage in the poem is also very emotional. The poem is about a boythat is abstracted home and is easily upset, the poem also gives use afeeling that he is being forced to grow up to fast, because of some ofthe simple things he is worried about and the things he gets wrong. Atthe end of the poem the child keeps on drifting in to his ownimaginary world and also shows his deprivation of confidence. The mood isupsetting and lonely, this is created by the childs sad situation.The structure of the poem is in three chunks of lines, and the