“Half Past Two,” and “Dear Mr Lee,”

... Essay The two poems "Half Past Two," and "Dear Mr Lee," are both written by U.A.Fanthorpe. They are both about school-life, one from a young child's point of view and the other from an older child's point of view. The titles of these two poems do not, at a first glance, give the reader the distinct impression that they are about school-life. The reader's first thought on the poem "Half Past Two," is probably that it is about a meeting. A first impression from "Dear Mr Lee" could be that it was a letter. Although both the ideas fit very well into the poems, it is hard to get a full impression of what is exactly going on in the poems. Both poems give quite negative impressions of school. "Half Past Two," mentioning that the child does not quite understand what is going on, and that the teacher has left him on

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