Presenting People in Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in

Presenting People in Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes, and Island ManIn this essay I pull up stakes liken the shipway in which the poets presentpeople in Two Scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in aMercedes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Island Man by Grace Nichols.In this essay I will look at the shape, structure, poetic devices andlanguage in both poems. first I will examine what the two poems are about and the ways how both poets portray the people in the poems.The poem Two Scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in aMercedes is about a coincidence meeting of the two working classscavengers and a beautiful, affluent couple in Mercedes. This poem was setin the States and was aimed to show that there is class division and wascommenting on American society.In this poem there is a huge contrast between rich and poor. I knowthis because the description of the two scavengers and the rich coupleshows us the inequality that the two classes have. The poem is not set in stanzas scarce can be divided into 5 stages. It ismore s...