Half Past Two
Half Past Two is a poem about a boy who is told off for something and made to sit in a room for what he feels is a long time. He starts to go into a dream world, a timeless world. The poem is told in a childlike way, with simple words used throughout the poem. The poet uses the childlike language to make the reader feel as if they are a child again.
The poet has used a fairytale opening “Once upon a” which sets the scene and makes the reader feel relaxed and calm. The poet wanted to emphasis that the boy had done “Something Very Wrong” so she used to capital letters to show that. She has also used brackets around the words “(I forget what it was)”. Which makes the sentence before it “he did Something Very Wrong” sound as if it wasn’t that important so that’s why she doesn’t remember what it was. Again in the second stanza the poet has written the words “Something Very Wrong” to make sure the reader understands that the boy did something terrible. When the poet doesn’t ever mention what the boy has done wrong, which gives the impression that he doesn’t know what he’s done. The boy is constantly just thinking about the time throughout the poem, he thinks about all the different times that he knows. The boy is probably wondering when his teacher will come back and tell him to go home. That would make any child feel scared and probably worried if there teacher would come back to tell them to go home.
