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Compare 'Limbo' with 'Nothing's Changed, 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 'Limbo' with 'Nothing's Changed, showing how the poets reveal their ideas and feelings about the particular cultures and traditions that they are writing about. In this essay I will be comparing Limbo and Nothing's Changed to see how each poem conveys the authors ideas about culture and tradition. Even though both poems are set in very different places with different beliefs, there are still some views that go on throughout the world. Both Limbo and Nothing's Changed show the inequality of different races with the black people being undermined by the whites. Also in each poem the Black people know that they deserve more than what they are getting. In Limbo you can feel the vulnerability as the 'water is surrounding' the slaves and as their 'knees are spread wide'. This shows that the blacks feel insignificant and are made to feel as though they are below the whites. The...

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