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have used a lot of enjambments in the two poems, giving the effect of a story being told. As for the structure of the poems, both of their personas are alone throughout. The child in 'Half-past Two' is alone as for most of the poem (the first 8 stanzas). 'Once upon a schooltime/He did Something Very Wrong...', 'And knew he'd escaped for ever/Into the smell of....'. The persona first seems to be narrating what happened to him and then daydreaming. For 'Hide and Seek', the persona hides alone and towards the end is alone as no one is there. Everyone who had been there had already left. 'Hide in your blindness...', '....where are they who sought you?', this shows that the people the person thought were there were in fact, not there. It was all in his head. He was alone the whole time. Both poems have several voices. From 'Half-past Two', 'He did Something Very Wrong/(I forget what it was).' This particular line shows that there are two voices, one that is reminiscing and looking back to the past and the other, his past self. 'Hide and Seek' is a mix of the persona’s internal and external voices, ‘‘I’m ready! Come and find me!’’, ‘You mustn’t sneeze…’, and the extensive use of imperatives directed to the persona himself such as ‘Don’t breathe. Don’t move. Stay dumb. Hide in your blindness.’, further depicts that the child is in fact alone and is, in a way, talking to himself. The mood in both poems changes quite a bit. In ‘Half-past Two’, the child reflects in the…

This season, it is no secret that the Cleveland Cavaliers desperately need help at the backup point guard spot. With no solid backup option behind All-Star Kyrie Irving, he has had to log a lot of minutes. Right now, he is averaging 35.2 minutes per game. The Cavaliers know that if they want to make it back to the NBA Finals and defeat the Golden State Warriors, they need another option behind Irving. On Saturday, Marc Stein of ESPN reported that the Cavs could target either Utah Jazz point…

his early career and his professional career. His legacy and the records he broke and set now I am going to tell you how he came straight out of high school to the NBA. Bryant started playing basket ball when he was 3 years old. His favorite team growing up was the Laker's. His grandfather would mail him videos of NBA basketballs game he study them also at an early age he learned how to play soccer. Upon Joe Bryant retirement from playing…