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Compare Nothing’s Changed to Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two
Beautiful People in a Mercedes’, showing how the poets reveal their
ideas and feelings about the cultures and traditions that they are
writing about.
The poem ‘Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a
Mercedes’ has been chosen to be compared to ‘Nothing’s Changed’. The
two poets Tatamkhulu Afrika and Lawrence Ferlinghetti reveal their
ideas and feelings about the cultures and traditions that they have
talked about through the tone, language and the structure of the poem.
The reader can notice that both poets reveal that in an angry way. The
poem that Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote tells us how the poor people
feel about the rich when they see them living and staying in a better
place than they are. The poem also tells us the separations between
the rich and poor. The poem ‘Nothing’s Changed’ talks about the
separation between the whites and the blacks and how the whites
usually treat the black people.
The tone in ‘Nothing’s Changed’ is very angry and violent, to show the
poets attitude to the fact that nothing has changed. His ideas and
violent feelings are revealed in his tone. He shows a very bad
attitude towards white people. The tone can be seen as that of a
resigned way, as if he knows that it almost too much to hope that
things can change.
The poem ‘Two Scavengers …’ can be seen as a loud angry tone, to
protest about the failure of democracy. It can also be seen as a
somber, muted tone, to express sadness that a gap remains between rich
and poor. Comparison in detail has been done between the two garbage
men and the cool couples.
The poem ‘Nothing’s Changed’ is written in the present tense. Even
though he is talking about a past experience, it’s like it is
happening now. This is one of the features that were used in the
language to make us read the poem. The poet uses alliteration in all
the stanzas except stanza four. In the first stanza he used
alliteration when he used the words cuffs, cans and crunch. In the
third stanza the poet uses alliteration on ‘g’. He also uses rhythmic
echo in ‘hands’, ‘bones’ and ‘lungs’ in the second stanza. Repetition
and assonance is also used in the second stanza. Sound pattern has
been used in the fifth stanza. All this shows how the poet reveals
his ideas and feelings about his culture and tradition. So the
language he used helped him a lot to reveal his thoughts and feelings.
The poem title ‘Two Scavengers …’ shows us that the poem will be about
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