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Describe the aspects of the poem "Half-Past-Two" by U.A.Fanthorpe

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:36:58
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Half Past Two I will use the method of explaining every stanza to write about this poem in detail. 'Half Past Two' is a poem in which Fanthorpe describes how a young child is given a detention for an unspecified misdemeanour and is forgotten by his teacher. Fanthorpe draws on her experience as a teacher to describe the scene as seen through the child's eyes. The Title of the poem tells me a lot of …

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…legs for walking" presenting to us that he knows what a clock face looks like. Stanza Seven: In this stanza the boy is not confined by time or restricted by deadlines. He is able to escape through sublimation into physical sensations, which are explained in stanza eight. Stanza Eight: Fanthorpe uses the technique of imagery by using words like "Smell, Touch, Sound" to create a visual impression of how the boy escapes into a myste

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