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How does Ferlinghetti use alternative methods to express views about culture and traditions and discuss.
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How does Ferlinghetti use alternative methods to express views about culture and traditions and discuss Ferlinghetti wrote the 2 Scavengers' poem in the mid 1950's when living in America in which he belonged to a group known as the "Beat Generation". The poem is different and original in its style and format for how it is set out. It is about a neutral person (the narrator) looking on at a traffic light as two different class of people pull up. Ferlinghetti looks at these 2 vehicles and compares the two types of people within them. American society at the time was well known for being the land of opportunity, which is why Ferlinghetti was there. But within American society, there were to types of people: The upper class, and the lower class. This is what the poem looks at. It is entitled the "two scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people...
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