Goals Essays

Poetry is such an important way of expressing themes, ideas and feelings in a condensed form. ‘Caged bird’ is a poem written by Maya Angelou and ‘Nothings Changed’ is written by Tatamkhulu Afrika. ‘Caged Bird’ is about ‘Freedom’. In this poem Angelou relates back to how Black Americans were treated …

Nothing’s changed is an autobiographical poem written by Tatamkhulu Afrika; a white South African who grew up in Cape Town’s Disrict Six. The apartheid government declared District Six as an area for only white people, and soon after, the area was destroyed. In this poem he returns to District Six …

In this essay I will be comparing Limbo and Nothing’s Changed to see how each poem conveys the authors ideas about culture and tradition. Even though both poems are set in very different places with different beliefs, there are still some views that go on throughout the world. Both Limbo …

In this essay the two poems “Nothing’s changed” by Tatumkhulu Afrika and “Charlotte O’Neil’s Song” by Fiona Farrell are going to be compared. These two poems have been chosen because of the obvious rebellion of the characters, the inequality that they are describing, and the stylistic features similarities such onomatopoeia, …

The content in “Charlotte O’Neil’s song” is of a maid who is extremely angry and is not willing to be a slave for hey “mistress” any more. She then makes up her mind to immigrate to New Zealand. In stanza one of “Charlotte O’Neil’s Song” she makes a list of …

When we meet Antoinette for the first time, she is a child of no more than 10. The absence of a definite age mirrors her flightful and relaxed personality. This is a common technique involving several factors that forms a bond between the reader and the character. Her innocence as …

The film starts with low camera shot of a can or a circular piece of rubbish in the grass reflecting the bright sky and a reflecting and dark image of an elderly man walking past with a stick. The low camera shot makes us feel as if we were actually …

Both of the poets are trying to explain the evil that can go on in people’s minds and how race and colour can make huge differences in the way that people can be perceived. They do this in very different ways and as both of the poets had very different …

When J. B. Priestley sat down to write “An Inspector Calls,” he deliberately decided to set the novel in the year 1912. This was the same historic year that the “Unsinkable” Titanic sank, the class system in Britain was at its height, and was two years before the beginning of …

In this essay, I shall be exploring what the poems “Blessing” and “Nothing’s Changed” suggest about people and places. Imtiaz Dharker is a British-Pakistani poet who wrote ‘Blessing’. Dharker writes about the issues she has faced being a Pakistani in Scotland and also the guilt she feels when she sees …