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How does Half Past Two and Leaving School communicate their different views on education?
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... How does Half Past Two and Leaving School communicate their different views on education? Karel Kumar 11s11^th March 2003. The two poems I will compare have been written by two different poets, who have very different views and experiences on the education system. Throughout this essay I shall try to bring across their different ideas and how these ideas are shown in two poems, "Half-Past Two" by U A Fanthorpe and "Leaving School" by Hugo Williams. Leaving school is about an eight year old boy, who has been sent off to boarding school, he finds it hard to re adjust to a military like environment where children are obedient, smart and have a timetable to adhere to. He comes from a small primary school; he is not particularly smart and finds the work he is set very hard. Later on in the poem he feels rather homesick, he misses
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