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Poets often write about their culture.
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Poets often write about their culture. Choose three poems which reflect a different culture. The three poems, which I have chosen, which reflect different cultures are; Limbo by Edward Kanou Brathwaite, What Were They like? By Denise Lervatov and Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekial. Limbo is about a dance, called the limbo, which is being performed by slaves on a slavery ship, on its way to America. The poem, Night of the Scorpion is about the night the poets mother was stung by a scorpion, and how all the villagers tried to stop the poison spreading. The poem, What Were They Like? Is about the people of Vietnam after the war, and how their lives were affected. The setting of these poems is important because they are needed to realise what part of the world their cultures are lived by. Such as in the poem Limbo, it is...
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