... the poem which emphasises certain things. In the third stanza the word "and" is used several times to emphasise that she had to do a number of things. This shows that Charlotte feels that she is unfairly treated and has ...

... O of small, mean mouth.' Soon after, a man with old-fashioned brown shoes, treading on dusty stony ground, by showing only a sketchy reflection and the shoes of the man, creates a sense of mystery and wonder about who it is. ...

... been completed, even today and Afrika is very angry with that all those people were made homeless, just because they were different. Tatamkhulu Afrika was an Egyptian-born, child of an Arab father and a Turkish mother. He was raised as a ...

... and behaviour had not changed, still having that invisible barrier between the blacks and the whites. He describes the different classes whites (upper class) in their elegant restaurants, eating 'haute cuisine', whereas the blacks (lower class) are left in their ...

... was no actual law abut it but everybody knew it, 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 ...

... in rubbish and weeds, 'cans, trodden on, crunch in tall, purple-flowering, amiable weeds.' This shows that there is also rubbish and weeds on the path where the writer is walking. In the second stanza, the writer also shows that there ...

... deep," reverberating in the speaker's whole body until it is like the "roar of the winds," making a strong, clear vision to the soul which will inspire it. Longfellow uses a simile (Line 7) for a direct comparison of how ...

... is like today compared to what it was like For example The name of the poem being "Nothings changed" This simply suggests what's it says that nothings changed since he lived there as a boy, to know him going back ...

... sing a song about her feelings and thoughts, in her play Passengers. Her song is only set in two tenses - the past and the future. Like the song reveals, the job involved everything, from opening the front door, to ...

... reader decide on what was happening. 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 ...

... new restaurant that is built in the area, which is expensive, stylish, exclusive, with a guard at the gatepost. But then he thinks about the poverty around it, especially the working men nearby, where people eat straight from a plastic ...

... us that the author is quite exhausted. The opening of the poem explains the title and helps to further the exhaustion of the poet by stating that his heart ached and lungs panted. The words 'dry air sorry, scant' helps ...

... of someone standing back watching the incident or someone that knows the young couple, besides that the present tense is used to give immediacy. The poem can be split into three parts, as there are three couples involved. The beginning ...

... also drawn to the loveliness of these things, but feels awkward wearing them; 'I tried satin-silken top-/was alien in the sitting-room. /I could never be as lovely as those clothes', (lines 16-19).The girl 'longed for denim and corduroy'', (lines 20-21).This ...

... Afrika's motivation lay within his life experiences and influences, as did Brathwaite's. The two poets had each experienced forms of power, yet both were able to express and convey the flaws of these authorities in different styles. Today, ...

... power. In Nothings Changed the first stanza shows the 'amiable weeds', which is that some of the black people are being forced into believing that they truly are an inferior race. Also, comparisons are made between the standards of living ...

... is also stuck between two cultures the 'blacks' and 'whites'. This is shown by "Whites only inn" This quote demonstrates the metaphorical barrier between the two cultures. The speaker in 'Nothings Changed' is a black man who returns to district six. In this ...

... this he creates a vivid read in which the reader can identify with. As the poem develops it is easy for the reader to imagine that he too is walking, seeing and breathing everything that Afrika also overcame. Afrika continues ...

... this he creates a vivid read in which the reader can identify with. As the poem develops it is easy for the reader to imagine that he too is walking, seeing and breathing everything that Afrika also overcame. Afrika continues ...

... description of the way he walks down towards where he use to live, tells the narrator that he is relaxed and is taking a leisurely walk, "Small round hard stones click under my heels", this statement reinforces what mood he ...

... though South Africa is supposed to have changed, he knows the new restaurant is really 'whites-only 'line 24. He feels that nothing has really changed. The voice of the poem is the poet's voice and it is angry in tone. ...

... the poet that will or has already changed. In 'Old Man, Old Man' most of the statements referring to old age are greatly exaggerated for the reason that the reader can imagine how much the man has changed, and therefore a ...

... notices how two pairs of people live completely different lives in the same city. One of the ways in which the poets present people is by using language. Both poets use comparison language effectively to contrast between the lives of the ...

... poem I think that the similarities in the poem are that both poems enhance the poet's emotions and feelings. The differences are that in 'Vultures' has described his setting in a simple way, whereas in 'Nothings Changed' the writer has gone ...

... violent, to show the poets attitude to the fact that nothing has changed. His ideas and violent feelings are revealed in his tone. He shows a very bad attitude towards white people. The tone can be seen as that of ...