Describe the common themes that appear in 'Hide and Seek' and 'Half-past two'

'Hide and seek' by Vernon Scannell is about a young, excitable infant playing the childhood game of hide and seek. It begins by revealing the juvenile excitement experienced by a child when playing a game - 'Call out. Call loud: I'm ready! Come and find me!' Through the poets use of exclamation marks we can see the child's joy at partaking in the game. It is exhilarating and fun time for the child, but …

…of society, not simply because he is playing a game.<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/> Time is a comparable theme explored in both poems, but more so in 'Half-past two'. In 'Hide and Seek', time symbolically passes to show the transition of friendship to loneliness; and 'Hide and Seek' discusses how the world is restrained by the limits of time.