Poetry Analysis-Childhood

... English Coursework Laura Hui To what extent did these poems effectively construct the theme of childhood? Innocent. That's what we were during the course of our childhood, before we became corrupt, greedy and stressful. The poems "Half-Past Two" (HP2) by U.A. Fanthorpe, "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence and "My Parents kept Me from Children who were Rough"(Rough Children) by Stephen Spender reminds us of how innocent life was when we were children. They reveal to us how arrogant we were lacking knowledge of the real world. Through diction and persona, emotion and depth, the poems play on the nostalgic senses for our bittersweet childhoods. "Once upon a schooltime", that is the first line of the poem "Half-Past Two" it immediately shows that it is narrative, almost as if telling a story to a child. The second line of the first stanza, "He did Something Very Wrong", this emphasizes the childlike thinking, the guilt

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