Analysis Rising Five By Norman Nicholson

... George Ingram 22/12/04 Analysis Rising Five By Norman Nicholson Rising Five by Norman Nicholson starts as a simple poem which becomes a lot deeper and more complicated. It begins with the innocent remark of a four year old to the poet. This comment about the boy's age makes the poet think about how everyone contemplates their future. The first verse describes an emphatic four year old boy who is indignant because someone called him four. He sees things differently, "I'm rising five', he said, 'not four". He has a chubby face with fat 'toffee-buckled cheeks' and 'little coils of hair un-clicked themselves upon his head' giving the impression of him stamping his foot and tossing his head. He is cross because he has been called four when he believes he can sound more important by being called 'rising five'. This is where the word 'rising' from the title begins to repeat

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