Comparing Nothings Changed With Vultures

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Comparative Essay: Compare Nothings Changed with Vultures, Analysing the Political Message Conveyed

Introduction

My essay is based on comparing the poems ‘Nothings Changed’ with
‘Vultures’. I am looking at the similarities and differences in the writing, characters, setting, structure, words and poetic devices used. I am also looking at the different emotions the different poets have used.

How do the poets use setting to convey mood?
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In ‘Vultures’ the poet uses sad and dull words to convey the mood. I know this because in the poem the poet has used words such as
‘greyness’ and ‘dead tee’. He has used these to express his emotions and to reinforce the atmosphere of the poem and …show more content…

Why are those poems still important to us today?

Both the poems ‘Vultures’ and ‘Nothings Changed’, which I have been analysing, hold very important meanings and morals that people may follow. In ‘Vultures’ the poem is about things, which are to come, and about an affectionate man. In the poem, the poet has used two words,
‘Harbingers’ and ‘Bounteous’. ‘Harbingers’ means things, which are to come, and ‘Bounteous’ which means the good thing god has given. Also, the poet has given the man in the poem two different personalities, one as a ‘Commandant’ and the other as a ‘Daddy’. The specific words, which I have picked out of the poem, suggest that the poem may be quiet religious and so the poem would mean something to religious people. The two different personalities of the man teach that ha can still be considerate to his loved ones, as in the poem he is first described as grouse and then gives an affectionate response towards his kids as he stops at the shop to buy them sweets.

In ‘Nothings Changed’ the poem is about racism and how blacks and whites are legally equal but there is still no fairness between …show more content…

The poem talks about blacks as if they are dirty, cheap and poor, but considers whites as fancy and posh. The ways in which the poet has compared the two casts shows how the blacks and whites are still not equal as the whites go to a ‘new, up-market, haute cuisine’ and the blacks are at a ‘working man’s café’ which sells ‘bunny chow’ and they eat on ‘plastic table’s top’ and also ‘wipe your fingers on you jeans, spit a little on the floor: it’s in the bone’. This poem teaches and resembles how everyone should be treated equally and fairly because the colour of your skin doesn’t matter.

The similarities in about both poems are that both poems give a teaching and have a bit of religion in both of them, and the difference is that ‘Vultures’ teaches how never to judge a book and
‘Nothings Changed’ teaches fairness and equality, to never hate someone because of the colour of their skin and not to be

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