Commentary – Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara In Gabriel Okara’s poem‚ “Piano and Drums”‚ Okara expresses his feelings and thoughts of a primitive society in contrast to a western society. Being an African himself‚ and having studied in a western society‚ the poem reflects the confusion in his emotions as well as the loss of self-identity. The title of the poem itself‚ “Piano and Drums” displays a sense of dissimilarity and contrast as the instruments are so unalike in terms of sophistication.
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the poem symbolises the Western World but more specifically the European race. Background Analysis of the Poem Commentary – Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara In Gabriel Okara’s poem‚ “Piano and Drums”‚ Okara expresses his feelings and thoughts of a primitive society in contrast to a western society. Being an African himself‚ and having studied in a western society‚ the poem reflects the confusion in his emotions as well as the loss of self-identity. The title of the poem itself‚ “Piano and
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Lydia Turner January 19‚ 2013 HUM 121S Dr. M. Lynn Barnes Abstract ideas and concrete images sometimes merge in “Piano and Drums” by I think piano being Africa and the drums being other nations. I understood the concrete images as the riverside and the abstract ideas being that the riverside is calm‚ peaceful‚ serine‚ and just how Africa has been for decades. The jungle drums are abstract and the other nations coming with their mystic rhythms‚ their more advanced than Africa that is what makes
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Commentary on Piano and Drums In the poem‚ Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara‚ we see a comparison between the primal‚ old world and the more developed new world. Okara compares the two through the representation of the two eras in musical form. Throughout the poem‚ as we experience the two different music forms‚ the poet‚ Okara displays the various allures that the two different societies have on him. The old world displays itself as a very rugged but simple time‚ one that speaks to the primal man
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In the poem "Piano and Drums‚" Gabriel Okara shows the contrasts between the past life and the modern world. Some aspects in his poem date back before the beginning of civilization. In this essay I will reflect on Okara’s concepts and visions. The poem is effectively written in Verse Libre or free verse. This allows Okara to freely express his thoughts without any restrictions in rhyme or rhythm‚ yet the poem inhibits a powerful rhythm. This technique gives a lyric type tone to the poem‚ aiming
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"Piano and Drums" is a poem that accurately explores the trying conflict of merging a traditional culture with a new‚ modern civilisation. The author Gabriel Okara‚ who also doubles as the narrator in the poem‚ responds to the drums as his tribal heritage and the simplicity of youth‚ while he sees the piano as the foreign customs irrelevant to the black society‚ with the complexity of experience. Throughout "Piano and Drums"‚ Okara’s choice of diction is used to show his response to the two kinds
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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
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poets feel about the past? I am writing an essay comparing how the poets who wrote: piano‚ once upon a time and poem thirty-nine feel about the past. In Piano the poet listens to a woman play a piano which reminds him of his past‚ the lines ’ Taking me back down the vista of years‚ till I see A child sitting under the piano’ show that he can remember being a small child – small enough to be under a piano and the addition of the line ‘ of a mother who smiles as she sings’ informs us of happy
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D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Piano” and Langston Hughes “The Weary Blue” are two remarkable poems about the connection they encounter with music. Lawrence and Hughes both use music to remind them of moments in life when music impacted them most. While both poems have similarities they also have vast differences. The poems “Piano” and “The Weary Blue” both use music as a theme‚ but the poets tone is what makes the poems different. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast Langston Hughes “The
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of waves‚ the sound of a V8 hemi‚ or the sound of a credit card being swiped and approved? For a musician‚ in particular a percussionist‚ the sound of a drum would be their favorite sound in the world. Today I am going to briefly talk about the origin of the drum‚ the components of the modern drum set‚ and the benefits of drumming. Now‚ a drum is a musical instrument which produces sound by the vibration of a stretched membrane (head). The very first drumming in history was a series clapping of
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