Compare The Poems Piano And Drums And Telephone Conversation.
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Compare The Poems Piano And Drums And Telephone Conversation Piano and Drums is a poem in which an African male listens to firstly the sound of drums, which take him to a primal area with his mother and in a tribal atmosphere, then he listens to a piano and thinks forward to the future and a more complex way of living. Telephone conversation is a poem in which an African male wants to rent a flat from a white lady, who we find out through the poem is racist. Both of these poems have been written by Nigerian born poets, both of who were born and started their education in Nigeria. They both then moved from their homes in Nigeria to be educated in a more modernised English speaking country. In both poems, the writers have made an obvious divide in culture and race. In Telephone Conversation, it is...


