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- 1. Nothing’s Changed Tatamkhulu Afrika
- 2. Tatamkhulu Africa 1920 – 2002 Raised as a white South African Put in prison for associating with black people Poem is about Apartheid.
- 3. Nothing’s Changed Small round hard stones click under my heels, seeding grasses thrust bearded seeds into trouser cuffs, cans, trodden on, crunch in tall, purple-flowering, amiable weeds.
- 4. Nothing’s Changed Small round hard stones click under my heels, seeding grasses thrust bearded seeds into trouser cuffs , cans , trodden on, crunch in tall, purple-flowering, amiable weeds . Onomatopoeic words Creates harsh tone Alliteration Contradiction to show he prefers weeds to the New trees (21)
- 5. District Six. No board says it is: but my feet know, and my hands, and the skin about my bones and the soft labouring of my lungs, and the hot, white, inwards turning anger of my eyes.
- 6. District Six. No board says it is: but my feet know , and my hands, and the skin about my bones and the soft labouring of my lungs, and the hot, white , inwards turning anger of my eyes. Declared a white’s only Area in 1966 when it had previously been cosmopolitan His body knows it Repetition (structure) shows anger The hottest anger you have. Also linking with his anger towards white people
- 7. Brash with glass, name flaring like a flag, it squats in the grass and weeds, incipient Port Jackson trees: new, up-market, haute cuisine, guard at the gatepost, whites only inn.
- 8. Brash with glass , name flaring like a flag , it squats in the grass and weeds, incipient Port Jackson trees: new, up-market, haute cuisine , guard at the gatepost, whites only inn . This is a barrier to keep him out Simile shows how the place is showing off to black people. Negative words To stop undesirables This contrasts with what the blacks can have Compressed grammar and no unnecessary connectives
- 9. No sign says it is: but we know where we belong
- 10. No sign says it is: but we know where we belong There’s no official separation of black and white people any more but the feeling of unfairness lives on. Predominately monosyllabic words are used throughout the poem, sounding like a heartbeat underneath the surface
- 11. I press my nose to the clear panes, know, before I see them, there will be crushed ice white glass, linen falls, the single rose.
- 12. I press my nose to the clear panes, know, before I see them, there will be crushed ice white glass , linen falls, the single rose . He’s an outsider Obsessed with colour Represents the splendour Embodies the injustice of arrogant wealth amongst mass poverty
- 13. Down the road, working man’s café sells bunny chows. Take it with you, eat it at a plastic table’s top, wipe your fingers on your jeans, spit a little on the floor it’s in the bone.
- 14. Down the road , working man’s café sells bunny chows. Take it with you, eat it at a plastic table’s top , wipe your fingers on your jeans, spit a little on the floor it’s in the bone. The places where they can eat are separated In contrast to the white’s restaurant Could mean that black people have lived like this for so long that it now seems natural Used ironically
- 15. I back from the glass, boy again, leaving small mean O of small, mean mouth. Hands burn for a stone, a bomb, to shiver down the glass. Nothing’s changed.
- 16. I back from the glass, boy again , leaving small mean O of small, mean mouth. Hands burn for a stone, a bomb, to shiver down the glass . Nothing’s changed . Term, often insulting for a black male of any age Mark left by his mouth Shows that the man feels rejected He’s angry and wants to take action i.e. to remove the barrier between black and white Ends on a negative Note. Post apartheid-Africa is the same
- 17. Links Rich and Poor: Blessing Two Scavengers… Political/ social comment: Two Scavengers… Vultures What Were They Like? Sense of Place: Island Man Blessing Two Scavengers… Night of the Scorpion Vultures What were they like? Hurricane Hits England First Person Point of view: Limbo Night of the Scorpion Search for my Tongue Presents from my Aunts… Hurricane Hits England