Rising Five

Rising Five

  • Submitted By: Prison93
  • Date Submitted: 12/23/2008 7:16 PM
  • Category: English
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The image Nicholson drew in the first stanza was an image of an innocent child wearing hugely magnified glasses with curly hair growing out of his head and mouth full of toffee. His cheeks are distorted by the jaw’s grip on the toffee he’s chewing.”… toffee-buckled cheeks”. His spectacles must’ve been of strong magnification because they made his eyes seem very large. The little boy wants to get older, “ notfour, but rising five.” The first stanza the first part of a life cycle: childhood. The boy is innocent with toffee in his mouth and wants to get older as life seems more adventurous at an older age. The boy’s eager to go ahead on his life and he’s not even aware of what events he’s going to face but what he is eager is about is the ’adventures’ and what he’s be able to do when he reaches five. His spectacles, brimful eyes to stare” he describes him as a young boy and this gives the impression of his personality, his appearance and his age. He implies that the child is very young because he is looking forward to go to school. This could mean the sunlight was reflecting away from his strongly magnified spectacles. The tone in the first two lines of the poem is different to the tone used in lines 8 & 9. Lines 1 & 2 sort of just tell the readers what the child is thinking and what he wants. He, the child is just telling us that he’s not four but very close to become five. Whereas in lines 8 & 9 they emphasize the fact that it really means to the child about how badly he wants to become five and not four i.e. it’s reinforcing the idea of rising five At the end of spring season, therefore we’re getting into the Summer season; “it was the season after blossoming, before the forming of the fruit..” In the first two stanzas, the first line of each stanza rhymes with the third line and the second line rhymes with the fourth. There is an...

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