Compare the ways in which the poets present people in "Two Scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a Mercedes" and "Island Man"

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Compare the ways in which the poets present people in “Two Scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a Mercedes” and “Island Man”

In this essay I will compare the ways in which the poets present people in “Two Scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a Mercedes” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and “Island Man” by Grace Nichols.

In this essay I will look at the shape, structure, poetic devices and language in both poems. Firstly I will examine what the two poems are about and the ways how both poets portray the people in the poems.

        The poem “Two Scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a Mercedes” is about a coincidence meeting of the two working class scavengers and a beautiful, rich couple in Mercedes. This poem was set in America and was aimed to show that there is class division and was commenting on American society.

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In this poem there is a huge contrast between rich and poor. I know this because the description of the two scavengers and the rich couple shows us the inequality that the two classes have.

The poem is not set in stanzas but can be divided into 5 stages. It is more set out like a storyboard. The structure of lines links to the facts that the poem is looking at people at different extremes on the social specters. There is no punctuation used throughout the poem but capital letters are.  

Reading this poem I have noticed that ...

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