Compare And Contrast: In Mrs. Tilscher's Class.

The last stanza emphasizes that war destroys the soul of one being, and this is shown as the author uses abstract nouns such as: “strength,” “humanity,” and “entirety.” Overall, the hopeless tone and the use of vivid language deliberately creates a dark image of the society to the readers, conveying the message that the baby will lose its pureness once they come out into the real world and that it might be better if the baby elected death instead of life.

Hide and Seek is thematically and structurally similar to Prayer Before Birth. Hide and Seek describes the sinister childhood where the character hides in the bushes, but his best friends all leave him alone during a game of hide and seek. This is actually an imitation of an adult’s behavior, showing the harsh reality of adulthood and presenting what negatives adults have to face. Vernon Scannell wrote it in a free verse just like Prayer Before Birth but is a single stanza poem, showing the relentless flow of time from childhood to adulthood and the thrill or excitement of hide & seek. Adding on, another big similarity is that these two poems both use second person pronoun “you” instead of just “me” or “I” which makes it real and live to the reader, making it …show more content…
Tilscher’s Class has four solid stanzas—two stanzas with eight lines and two other ones with seven. This indicates that the change in stanza form represents a change in attitude as the child is changing and growing. This can be contrasted with Half Past Two since Half Past Two has eleven stanzas with three lines for all of them, which makes it very formative throughout the whole poem. Another difference between these two poems is that Half Past Two begins like a fairy-tale, and the childish language emphasizes that the narrator is a boy whereas the poem In Mrs Tilscher’s Class directly starts with a visual imagery that's nostalgic. But all in all, these two poems both show the innocence of a child and how it’s different to the