Compare Nothings Changed by Tatamkhulu Africa and Two Scavengers on a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Compare “Nothing’s Changed” by Tatamkhulu Africa and “Two Scavengers on a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti   As the name suggests Nothing's Changed is about the apartheid. A poor black man in district six, a poor area of South Africa, who is describing the area and his feelings and he says that nothing’s changed. It’s all the same even though they had  black president Nelson Mandela who stopped the apartheid. It was still the same, all the buildings were covered in glass and there was a restaurant but it was only for the whites,  The only place for the blacks was a cafe with white plastic chairs and tables. Two Scavengers in a truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes is about two classes brought together by a red light and the scavengers are looking down into the Mercedes then the poet describes the two beautiful people in the Mercedes to be rich and the two scavengers to be poor.        The language the poet
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uses in Nothing’s Changed is mostly aggressive the phrase which suggests this “Hands burn for a stone” this means he wants a stone to throw through the glass, The writer also uses repetition of the word “And” also he uses personification by saying “bearded seeds” personification means to make something human or alive.                                                The poet gradually gets angrier throughout the poem because as he enters the town he’s realizes that it is still the same and I think that he’s quite annoyed because he thinks Nelson Mandela being president would stop the apartheid but it hasn’t.                                                        In two scavengers the ...

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