Also, he is sitting in the sick bay. He should be in normal lessons with the other pupils. This shows that there is something wrong. In the first stanza, it has an indication of time, which starts to slowly bring a picture into our heads. This is the first indication of time in the poem. In this poem there are a lot of different times: .
"At two o"clock our neighbors drove me home." (line 3).
This shows the time. Normally we would expect the boy's parents to come and pick him up from school, but on this occasion they do not. This shows that there is something different about the day and suggests that the parents are busy or have better or more important things to take care of. .
In the second stanza it shows why the family is grieving. It tells you slowly what is happening as the boy enters his house and as he enters the house he meets his father in the porch: .
"In the porch I met father crying-.
He had always taken funerals in his stride-.
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow." (lines 3-5).
Normally a father would not be crying and it is unusual to see a father crying. We find out that there is a funeral taking place, but the boy's father is used to funerals and does not usually react the way he is doing at other funerals. It says he takes funerals "in his stride". This is obviously an idiom, as he does not take funerals every time he takes a stride. Also, it says "And Big Jim Evans saying it was hard blow" which shows that even someone big is taking it badly. It shows big as Big (with a capital letter) to emphasize the word. It shows that this man is big and still he is heart by the occasion. In the last two lines it starts to show that it was someone close who has died otherwise they would not be taking it so badly.
In the third stanza the boy enters the main room. There is a baby in the room who is making noise and breaking the silence: .
"The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram" (line 13).
Mid-Term Break As most people would think by reading this poems title, it is not about a joyous mid-term break of happy children enjoying their holidays. Indeed when I at first heard of the poem from my teacher I had the same thoughts. But in reality the poem is a sad one, which involves death a...
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