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How does Ferlinghetti show difference in American society in his poem “Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes”?
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How does Ferlinghetti show difference in American society in his poem "Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes"? Ferlinghetti set this poem in San Francisco. This is a busy city filled with people from all sorts of ethnic and social backgrounds. To me this creates the opportunity to show two people of such different statuses in society together. It also gives the author the chance to show the two sets of people together due to circumstance, showing how people are forced to live along side each other regardless of creed. The poem describes the people at a set of traffic lights, and although the traffic lights are rarely mentioned in the poem they are the basis of the text. It creates the main link between the two 'garbage men' and the two 'beautiful people'. It is one of the few places in today's society where these...
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