How do Vernon Scannell and U. A. Fanthorpe communicate the sense of being a child in their poems ‘Hide and Seek’ and ‘Half-past Two’? How do the experiences of the child in each poem compare?

... How do Vernon Scannell and U. A. Fanthorpe communicate the sense of being a child in their poems 'Hide and Seek' and 'Half-past Two'? How do the experiences of the child in each poem compare? 'Half-past Two' is a poem about a young child being placed in a detention and forgotten about by his teacher, while 'Hide and Seek' is a poem about a boy playing hide and seek but is left by his "friends" even after having found him. In both poems, the language used by the poets is very different and well chosen to create different effects, which I will discuss in this essay. Both poets establish the sense of being a child from the first line of their poems but very differently. 'Half-past Two' begins with: "Once upon a schooltime" By beginning with "Once upon a..." this creates a sense of unrealism as we associate fairytales

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