Write about at least 2 poems in which the author focuses on identity - "Nothings Changed" and "Search for my tongue".

National Congress came to power through Mandela he walks through this place which he remembers from when he was younger. “Small round stones click And then under my heels, Seeded Grasses thrust Bearded seeds Into trouser cuffs, cans, Trodden on, crunch In tall , purple-flowering, Amiable weeds.” The poet first gets us to focus in and imagine the sounds that is making, “small round stones click under my heels,” we envisage a mans footsteps but he gives you the adjectives which promote a prescise sound. Towards the end of the stanza we see a slow in reading pace as if it is the poet slowing down towards maybe something perhaps in the next stanza.But in “Half Caste” We can see the poet starting demanding an explanation about why someone calls him half caste why hes put in the category to very different approaches to poem describing or analysing identity. John Agard the author who wrote “District Six. No Board says it is : But my feet know, And my Hands, And the skin about my bones, And the soft labouring And the hot , white ,inwards turning Anger of my eyes.” The memory of district six enters his mind it is as if when he sees the place all of his memory’s of the place come flooding back to him , and the fact that he used to know this place and perhaps he had special feelings for the place and to see it ripped apart and developed . His anger is evident as it is expressed .This is different to the theme of half caste where a man is just sat only looking for answers to questions he is asking not moving around and activly doing something like in "Nothings Changed" where he is also reflecting on what he has seen.At thhe start of this stanza in "Nothings Changed" he comments on how he has come to district six but there is nothing here anymore to show that it was ever here oe that it even actually existed but , the author knows it he can feel it not just in his head but in his bones.He comes to an inn he says a whites only inn, but we know that after the apartheid laws this would be illeagal coming in to the whole point of his poem he beleives that no matter how many laws are changed attitudes willl never change towards some things. In half-caste a man shows us that many many things could be called half caste , put in too a category but it only seems to be people or more specificly him that is labeled this way such simple things as a composer using both black and white notes iin composing his symphonies he compares that to being half caste .Then he puts another point across that even though people put him into the class as a half caste man he is not half a man he doesnt do things half as well but he but then he tells us to come back tommorow to hear the other side of his story.