The two poems I'm comparing are "Two street cleaners in a truck, two beautiful people in a Mercedes", written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who shows the contrast between rich and poor in San Francisco and "Nothings Changed", written by Tatamkhulu Afrika "Nothing's Changed" is an autobiographical poem about a man who returns to the city he grew up in as an adult and how everything is still the same. .The tone of "Two Scavengers" changes from somber, when the poet describes the two waste men, and a more relaxed and happy tone when he talks about the 'Beautiful Ones'. I think he did this to enhance the effect of the sympathy he feels for the two street cleaners, because as they look at the two people in the Mercedes, they know that they are looking at a world that they know they can never be a part of. This is illustrated by when the poem says "as if they were watching an odorless TV commercial." 'Beautifuls' seem happy in their own world and seem oblivious to what's going on around them, even if it's right next to them. The overall tone of the poem, I think, is quite negative. The tone of "Nothing's Changed" is also negative and in some parts very angry. It can be said quite clearly that the poet is highly sensitive to the topic of racism he is writing about. His anger is greatly illustrated when the poem says “the hot, white, inward-turned anger of my eyes.” This shows how angry he is, because you can imagine it, because this is a metaphor, the image. Since the poem is autobiographical, I feel like it makes the subject more realistic.