"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 used to link the surrounding with life itself. In the poem, "Rising five" metaphors were used to show the inevitability of death, for example in the lines "we…