Comparing Two Poems: Half-past Two by U A Fanthorpe and Leaving School by Hugo Williams

... Comparing Two Poems: Half-past Two by U A Fanthorpe and Leaving School by Hugo Williams In Half-past Two, U A Fanthorpe writes as a man reminiscing about how he had viewed 'time' as a child and recounting the moment when it had struck him he had to learn how to tell it. Hugo Williams' Leaving School is also one man's memories of childhood. This time it examines his first weeks at boarding school. Both poems set out to present childhood experiences in an interesting way. The first lines of the two poems manage to immediately strike your attention and set the tone of the whole poem. Half-past Two begins "Once upon a schooltime", which gives you the impression that the rest of the poem will be in quite a childish tone and also creates a kind of fairytale atmosphere. Leaving School starts off: "I was eight when I set out into the

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