Compare the ways the poet reveals feelings about a place in Nothing's Changed with the ways another poet reveals feelings about a place or places in one other poem. (Night of the Scorpion)

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Compare the ways the poet reveals feelings about a place in Nothing's Changed with the ways another poet reveals feelings about a place or places in one other poem. (Night of the Scorpion)In Nothing's Changed, Afrika reveals the Inequalities of Black and White people after the abolishing of the Apartheid. It is set in District Six in South Africa, during Nelson Mandela's Democracy. In Night of the Scorpion, Ezekiel portrays cultural behaviour of religion in a Hindu community in India.The Structure of Nothing's Changed is based upon the return of the poet to 'District Six'. The place is vital due there being cultural inequalities. An example of this would be the 'White's only Inn'. "I press my nose to
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the clear panes" represents the inferior White's with their better quality of life, "down the road, working man's cafe" seperates the two places to show the inequality between whites to blacks and rich to poor. In Night of the Scorpion, the structure is based on the intensity of his mothers injury as the poem goes on. "My mother twisted through and through" is used nearer the end to show the intensity building up. The culture of the Hindu believe in 'reincarnation' and is shown when the boy says, "I watched the holy man perform his rites", this is also situated ...

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