Piano And Half Past Two

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Submitted by siddhesh on February 7, 2009

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Piano And Half Past Two

Half Past Two, Piano and Refugee Mother and Child share a common theme of childhood. In Half Past Two, the author talks about remembers about the feeling of simplicity and timelessness during his childhood. In Piano, the poet expresses his feelings towards the loss of childhood in comparison to his present. In Refugee Mother and Child talks about the loss of a child and the misery they all have to go through.
In Half Past Two, by U.A. Fanthorpe, we are taken into the past from the very start with the use of “Once upon a time”. The first line of the opening stanza displays the poem as if the author is looking down upon it like a memory. Her use of “Once upon a time” shows a...

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