Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes and Nothi

2 Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes and Nothings Changed Two Scavengers in a Truck,Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) andNothings Changed (Tatamkhulu Afrika)The the Statesn Constitution clearly states that all men atomic number 18 createdequally and should have the same opportunities as each other. However,Ferlinghetti believes this is not true. In his observation he sees thegarbagemen or chatterboxs tired and weary from their route, workinghard entirely still in unavoidable poverty. Also using a word likescavengers he compares the garbagemen to rodents scrounging a livingat the bottom of society. He and so sees the elegant couple in anelegant Mercedes, loving their life, not a care in the world, bothwealthy and smart. The wo valet de chambre so casually coifed and the man in ahip three piece suit who, have both benefited from the inequality ofthe American Constitution, taking it easy in their heavenly life.Ferlinghetti understands the unjustness of the Constitution scarce knowsdeep down that it cannot change and will never change.In the poem Ferlinghetti makes many contrasts between the scavengersand the elegant couple. The title shows us heterosexual away that the poemwill be about the contrasts between two pairs of people. Scavengersis a derogatory term for the garbagemen because it suggests that theylive off the rubbish of others - a scavenger beetle lives off rottingflesh. However, Beautiful People is a compliment. So, right from thestart, we feel the garbagemen are at a disadvantage. Ferlinghetti alsochose these words to describe their diametric classes, as they arestrong indications of who they are and what they do for a living.Scavenger impl... ...o both speak about the corruption ofthe systems of which they are under. Ferlinghetti uses the phraseacross that junior-grade gulfIn the high seasof this democracyThis simple phrase begs the question - Is this really a democracy?Afrika chooses not to a ffect the question directly, but expects you toask the question yourself. In his autobiography he wroteWe may have a new constitution, we may have on the face of it abeautiful democracy, but the racism in this country is absolutelyredolent. We try to pretend to the world that it does not exist, butit most certainly does, all day long, every day, shocking andsaddening and terrible. I am full of hope. But I wont see a change inmy lifetime. Its going to take a long time. In America its taken allthis time and its still not gone... So it will change. But notquickly, not quickly at all.