"Piano and Drums" by Gabriel Okara and "Rising five" by Norman Nicholson.

The two poems, "Rising five" by Norman Nicholson and "Piano and Drums" by Gabriel Okara share many of the same base themes through the use of language techniques. Both these poems are to do with life and yet both looked at different parts of it. They each used similar language techniques but for different reasons. They both use metaphors and imagery to emphasise their points In both "Rising five" and "Piano and Drums" metaphors are …

…Drums" depict the typical progression through life (Bildungsroman) in 2 different types of people. "Rising five" is about the growth of an innocent and protected boy to becoming a fruit and then an object which is no longer wanted, through the use of metaphors and imagery and how the same types of language techniques are used to show another progression from an uncivil and active childhood to a softer more complex adulthood in "Piano and Drums".