Comparing and Contrasting

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Comparing and Contrasting ‘Half-Past Two’ and ‘First Day at School’ This essay is going to be about two poems that are based around school. They have differences and similarities. The names of the poems are ‘Half-Past Two’ by UA Fanthorpe and ‘First Day at School’ by Roger McGough. The poem ‘Half-Past Two’ is about a boy who has done something very wrong at school and his teacher has told him off. The teacher then gives him a detention until half past two. He starts to feel anxious and confused because he hasn’t learnt time yet. ‘First Day at School’ is about a young child that on their first day at school. He starts to get worried and confused because of not being at his safe home. He misunderstands many things like he thinks classrooms are glassrooms and he thinks lessons are called lessins which he thinks are small and slimy creatures. The poems are similar in that they are both set in school. They get confused about many things. They both get scared and anxious, but they different in that one of them is about a boy being told off and the other poem is about a child’s first day at school. The child in ‘Half-Past Two’ seems quite young. The lines ‘He knew the clockface, the little eyes And two long legs for walking But he couldn’t read it’s language; gives the reader reassurance that the child doesn’t know time. The author used ‘click’ because a clock makes a clicking noise, so the boy might be thinking the clock is trying to tell him something. During the detention different thoughts started going through his head. He must have been scared that something bad was going to
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