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A Comparison of "Limbo" with "Nothing's Changed" The poems "Limbo" and "Nothing's Changed" have a lot in common if you look past the actual words into the meaning of the poems, you will see they both originate from the same theme; racism. "Limbo" tells the story of the Limbo dance and the joy of performing it. The poem is telling the story of a slave travelling from Africa to the West Indies in a slave ship. On the long journey, the slaves invented a dance called the Limbo dance which kept them fit and healthy so they could survive the journey. The dance involved walking underneath a stick only bending your knees; the stick started off low down then gradually went up every time you went underneath it without touching the stick. "Nothing's Changed" is a poem based on the segregation of white people and black people in Cape...

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