Comparing 'Hide and Seek', 'Half past Two' and 'Leaving school'

Half past Two is also written in a third person perspective. The language and viewpoint of the entire poem is that of a young child’s point of view, this is shown in the language. The language shows this by its simplicity, its child like words and the way that the writer puts words together with no spaces.

The language also has some rhyming words in it. The child’s character is simple, he knows what he knows, but that’s it and he shows innocence in the way he thinks. The mood is not really set because the description does not include the weather, of a descriptive setting but we get a confused and scared mood from the confused child. The structure is simple with some italic writing to create emphasis and the writer uses 3 lined stanzas.

Leaving School is written in a first person perspective and the language is a lot more complicated but still easily understood the language in the poem is also very emotional. The poem is about a boy that is missing home and is easily upset, the poem also gives use a feeling that he is being forced to grow up to fast, because of some of the simple things he is worried about and the things he gets wrong. At the end of the poem the child keeps on drifting in to his own imaginary world and also shows his lack of confidence. The mood is upsetting and lonely, this is created by the child’s sad situation. The structure of the poem is in three chunks of lines, and the situation gets worse as the poem continues.

All of the poems portray the child will similar characters and the child is portrayed in the same way in all the poems as a lonely upset person. The mood is also similar because the main character feelings and the upsetting situation create the mood in all the poems, which is similar in all the poems. However all the poems have different settings and situations. All the poems are upsetting and moving, but they all show the same person in different situations, even though the structure and setting varies.