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In the following essay I will endeavour to compare the two poems. Nothing changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika and An Old Woman by Arun Kolatkar. I will specifically look at the theme as well as relationship between people in their environment.
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Diverse Culture & Traditions In the following essay I will endeavour to compare the two poems. Nothing changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika and An Old Woman by Arun Kolatkar. I will specifically look at the theme as well as relationship between people in their environment. The poem, 'Nothing Changed,' is about the poet that returns to the wasteland that was once his home, and relives the anger he felt when the area was first destroyed. This is described in stanza in stanzas 1and 2. In stanza 3' the narrator of the poem sees a new restaurant: expensive, stylish, and exclusive, with a guard at the gatepost' alliteration on g sounds emphasises harsh feeling towards white culture. He thinks about the poverty around it, especially the working man's café nearby, where people eat without plates from a plastic tabletop (stanzas 4). This makes him reflect that despite the changing political...
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