Compare What Were They Like with Limbo
A Comparison of "Limbo" with "Nothing's Changed".
The black people were forbidden to go where white people went. The poet is expressing his views about how bad the situation is and how much he hates it in this poem. In both poems, they involve white people taking advantage of black people and they both come from the view of black people and tell us how they are treated. However this is not so obvious in the poem "Limbo", it can be spotted by the opinion the African Slave has of the White people in charge of the ship, the quote "the dumb gods are raising me" could mean the guards of the slaves picking him up to throw him off the ship. In Nothing's Changed, this is more obvious because the poem tells the reader about District 6 where all the black people live.
"Nothings Changed"
He has not told the reader what to think, unlike Afrika, he has let the reader judge for himself. In the first four lines of Afrikas' 'Nothing's Changed' the poet has tried to make sure that you feel relaxed, using calming words and images such as 'Seeding grasses' and 'Round hard stones click'. Those words bring about a mental image of a meadow, calm with nothing wrong anywhere. It uses repetition of 's' sounds and gives the entire section a feeling that maybe the poem is going to be calm and serene, showing very 'pleasant' imagery. However as soon as you progress onto the fifth line you start to see that the poem has a darker, more malevolent side to it. The poet used a very good example of onomatopoeia when he uses the word 'crunch'.
‘Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two beautiful People in Mercedes’ and ‘Nothings Changed’.
‘Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in Mercedes’ by
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is a poem about four very different people brought together by traffic lights turning red. The poet is protesting against the inequalities within a democracy. ‘Nothings
Changed’ by Tatamkhulu Afrika, is a poem, which is also protesting, but about the way black
The black people were forbidden to go where white people went. The poet is expressing his views about how bad the situation is and how much he hates it in this poem. In both poems, they involve white people taking advantage of black people and they both come from the view of black people and tell us how they are treated. However this is not so obvious in the poem "Limbo", it can be spotted by the opinion the African Slave has of the White people in charge of the ship, the quote "the dumb gods are raising me" could mean the guards of the slaves picking him up to throw him off the ship. In Nothing's Changed, this is more obvious because the poem tells the reader about District 6 where all the black people live.
"Nothings Changed"
He has not told the reader what to think, unlike Afrika, he has let the reader judge for himself. In the first four lines of Afrikas' 'Nothing's Changed' the poet has tried to make sure that you feel relaxed, using calming words and images such as 'Seeding grasses' and 'Round hard stones click'. Those words bring about a mental image of a meadow, calm with nothing wrong anywhere. It uses repetition of 's' sounds and gives the entire section a feeling that maybe the poem is going to be calm and serene, showing very 'pleasant' imagery. However as soon as you progress onto the fifth line you start to see that the poem has a darker, more malevolent side to it. The poet used a very good example of onomatopoeia when he uses the word 'crunch'.
‘Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two beautiful People in Mercedes’ and ‘Nothings Changed’.
‘Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in Mercedes’ by
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is a poem about four very different people brought together by traffic lights turning red. The poet is protesting against the inequalities within a democracy. ‘Nothings
Changed’ by Tatamkhulu Afrika, is a poem, which is also protesting, but about the way black