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comparing poets, benjamin zephaniah and WB Yeats
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By Zahra Wais Benjamin Zephaniah's poem 'No problem' is about how he was subjected to racism when he was in England it's about his experience in school and how the teachers and everyone else treated him a certain way just because of the colour of his skin. He talks in Caribbean English and not in Standard English so that it appeals to black people and not put them off. It also sounds natural because it's the way he speaks. However the poem by WB Yeats- 'An Irishman Foresees his death' is a poem in the memory of one of his friends, a pilot who he admired, when reading this poem it's almost like WB Yeats is the pilot and he's writing about himself or that he has experienced this sense of feeling of being free when flying and happy. The poem 'No problem' by Zephaniah, tells us about how he has experienced racism...
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