Both `Two scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful people in a Mercedes` and `What were they like?` use language and layout for effect.

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Question: Compare how language and layout are used for effect in .Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes. (page 8) with the ways language and layout are used for effect in one other poem.Both `Two scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful people in a Mercedes` and `What were they like?` use language and layout for effect. In `Two scavengers` language and layout is used for effect to show the social divide and how they contrast, while in `What were they like?` layout and language is used for effect to show how wonderful this culture was and how nobody is quite sure about what they were like. In `What were they like?` layout is used for effect as the structure of poem consists of 6 questions in the first stanza and then the answers in the second stanza as Levertov is trying to create the effect that people have loads of questions about this culture yet people are unsure on the answers. Having the
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questions before the answers creates the idea that people have loads of questions of about this culture yet not many people have the answers and the break between the stanza shows you have to wait for somebody that knows the answers. The layout in `What were they like?` could also reflect the difficulty situation in Vietnam because having the answers second shows it is difficult to answer the questions but also creates the idea that it was also a difficult situation for the people of Vietnam and now it’s difficult to get the answers as they are no longer like ...

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