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Compare 'Nothing's Changed' with one other poem, showing how the poets reveal their ideas and feelings about the particular cultures and traditions that they are writing about
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Compare 'Nothing's Changed' with one other poem, showing how the poets reveal their ideas and feelings about the particular 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 with 'Nothing's Changed'. 'Nothing's Changed' is an autobiographical poem. Tatamkhulu Afrika has written this poem on the system of apartheid, which kept white and black South Africans segregated. He writes that, despite the changing political situation, there are still huge inequalities between blacks and whites. 'Two Scavengers...' describes four people held together for a moment at a red traffic light. Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes about the differences that he has observed in society. Both the poets reveal their ideas and feelings about the particular cultures and traditions that they are writing about through the structure, language, imagery & tone of the poems. Both the poems...
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