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Compare the ways in which the poets present people in two of these poems
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Compare the ways in which the poets present people in two of these poems In 'Nothing's Changed' and 'Two Scavengers' the poets, Tatamkhulu Afrika and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, present people successfully in these two poems. Both poets use the same techniques, such as the theme and setting, language, structure and the feeling expressed in the poems. By using these devices, the reader is able to gain an insight to how the poets present people to show the importance of different cultures. Firstly, in these two poems, the poets use the theme of inequality, but in different ways. In 'Nothing's Changed', the theme is about racial inequality. The poet, Afrika, goes back to District Six in Cape Town after the end of racial segregation in South Africa, known as the Apartheid, but only to realize that the area which is supposed to be a mixed-race area again, still seems to be a 'whites only'...
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