How do the writers of 'Hide and Seek' and 'Half-past Two' help you to understand the events or incidents they describe?

... How do the writers of 'Hide and Seek' and 'Half-past Two' help you to understand the events or incidents they describe? These two poems both tell the story of memorable incidents in the lives of children. 'Hide and Seek' describes the well known childhood game and 'Half-past Two' is a story about a school boy in detention who can't tell the time. 'Hide and Seek' takes the form of a series of instructions on how to play the game interspersed with pieces of descriptive language whereas 'Half-past Two' is a narrative with some description. In 'Hide and Seek' one participant in the game is telling another in the third person how to play. It begins 'Call out. Call loud: "I'm ready! Come and find me!"' and this is followed by instructions such as 'Don't breathe. Don't move. Stay dumb' and 'Push off the sacks. Uncurl and stretch.' The end of the game

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