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Two poems from different cultures-‘Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two beautiful People in Mercedes’and ‘Nothings Changed’.
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Compare and contrast of two poems from different cultures- 'Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two beautiful People in Mercedes' and 'Nothings Changed'. 'Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in Mercedes' by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is a poem about four very different people brought together by traffic lights turning red. The poet is protesting against the inequalities within a democracy. 'Nothings Changed' by Tatamkhulu Afrika, is a poem which is also protesting, but about the way black people are treated in a place where the poet used to live, in District Six, in South Africa, where apartheid took place. In the poem 'Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in Mercedes', the poet compares four people. The four people are brought together by the traffic light turning red. The poem is set in downtown San Francisco at 9 O'clock in the morning. First he describes the two garbage men in their truck. He compares...
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