Injustice: A Comparison of Poets Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Injustice.

Injustice: A Comparison of Poets Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Injustice.
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Injustice: A Comparison of Poets

Summary: Compares and contrasts the way in which the poets present the theme of injustice in "Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes," by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and "Nothing's Changed," by Tatamkhulu Afrika.
Compare and contrast the ways in which the poets present injustice in "Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes" and "Nothing's Changed."

"Nothing's Changed" by Tatamkhulu Afrika is a protest against white authority- and against supremacy over all underprivileged, mistreated, weaker members of society by any power group. The focus of this disapproval is the Apartheid approach which subjugated white South African thinking.

Tatamkhulu Afrika, writer of "Nothing's Changed", lived in Cape Town's District 6, which due to apartheid in the 1960's was unfortunately declared a `whites only' area. Afrika was forced to evacuate his home land and some many years later, just after the official end of apartheid, Afrika set about writing this poem during a time of hope, in which his poem became an autobiographical verse.

In "Nothing's Changed" Stanza one, Afrika invites the reader to stand in his childhood shoes and observe...

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