Vultures and Two Scavengers
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Compare the way people are presented in 'Vultures' (page ten) with the ways people are presented in one other poem. 'Vultures' (page 10) and 'Two scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a Mercedes' (page 8). 'Two scavengers' and 'Vultures', both focus on the height of the people they use in their poems to presents their ideas. In 'two scavengers', 'standing on the back stoop one on each side hanging on and looking down' seems to contradict the couples roles in society. The reader would expect the garbage men to be presented with a lower status in society. Usually when poets try to show the difference between two people, the person who is seen to have more influences in society, is generally in higher position. This is not the case in 'two scavengers', the poet shows the garbage men higher than, 'the two beautiful people in a Mercedes'. This...


