Warning and Half Past Two

... Warning and Half Past Two When looking at the poems 'Warning' by Jenny Joseph and the poem 'Half past Two' by U.A Fanthorpe they seem very different. When you look closely at the two poems you start to see many similarities. The little boy in 'Half past Two' escapes into his own fantasy world where there is no time no limitations and no restrictions. The women in 'Warning' goes off into a sort of fantasy where there are no constraints or restrictions. 'Half-past Two' is told by someone else about the little boy whereas 'Warning' is told by the women in the poem telling people what she is going to do when she is old. Both poems use language that allows the reader to capture more of an image of what the poet is saying. The Structure and language of the poems is similar. 'Warning' has four stanzas, the first

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