Both of my poems concern the notion of childhood and the affect of life on that childhood. However, they both express completely different point of views - 'Rising five' uses the idea of a child to show how children treasure life so much more than adults. Charles Causley's poem uses the child to show how growing up can teach children to treasure life - both are valid arguments. On reading the first stanza of 'Rising …showed first 75 words of 942 total…

…showed last 75 words of 942 total…- as we grow older we should learn to value life even more - the older we get, the more precarious our life becomes. On the other hand, life experiences can help us to realise this - as in the child from Charles Causley's poem. Both these poems teach the same simple message - that we should life life in the present, and enjoy life as it comes, not focusing on things that aren't relevant.