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Compare the ways in which the poet presents people in “Two scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a Mercedes” and one other poem from in different cultures and traditions
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Compare the ways in which the poet presents people in "Two scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a Mercedes" and one other poem from in different cultures and traditions Ferlinghetti present the people in "Two scavenger in a truck, Two beautiful people in a Mercedes", in a very interesting way, that is very similar to they way Afrika present the people in "Nothing's changed". In the former the poet start the poem off by setting the scene - so at a traffic light there is a yellow garbage truck with two dustbin men inside, and a Mercedes with an elegant couple inside. The poet describes the elegant couple first then describes the two dustbin men. There is a big contrast when the poet starts describing the other pair, and this contrast is also present in Nothings changed, when Afrika describes the whites only inn and the blacks' café. Similarly, Nothings changed...
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