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Compare the ways in which feelings are expressed in ‘Nothing’s Changed’ and one other poem of your choice.

Feelings are what make us human; the fact that we have differing opinions and thoughts. Someone’s ‘feelings’ on a subject can differ greatly, from love to hatred. While we can’t control our feelings, we can control how we choose to express them, whether it is in words or actions and in what words and what actions. These words or actions are used as a means of self expression, as different emotions are often expressed in completetely different ways. In ‘Nothing’s Changed’ the poet expresses their feelings of anger through repitition – “and my hands, and the skin about my bones, and the soft...” – and through the use of violent language such as “hot, white, inward turning anger of my eyes” and “hands burn... a stone, a bomb.” This is a complete contrast to the way the feelings are expressed in Island man. The feeling’s in Island Man are ones of longing for home and are expressed at the beginning through the use of positive language when thinking of home “the sound of blue surf,” “emerald island” and at the end depression is expressed through negative language: “dull north circular roar” “heaves himself.”

Structurally, for Nothing’s Changed we notice that in the middle there is a short stanza set out as a main point: “no sign says it: but we know where we belong,” which seperates it and draws attention to his main point that despite the signs being taken down, that same attitude of social division and the tensions still remain. This is slightly similar to the structure of Island man, in that at the very end one line stands on it’s own – “Another London Day.” However, this stands on it’s own to show how boring his life is. In contrast to Nothing’s Changed, the line lengths of ‘Island Man’ get longer and then smaller, being reminiscnent of the Carribbean waves that he misses so much. This also makes the last line stand out: “another London day” as it is the only line that does not look like waves, reinforcing that he is bored of London life.
There is no punctuation in Island Man, which shows us that everything in Island man happens in an instant, just as he is in between blissful dream and depressing reality. In contrast, we see an overuse of punctuation in ‘Nothing’s Changed’ which makes you stop and take the poem slowly, following the poet in their slow build up of rage – this is another form of expression used by Afrika.
The narrative in ‘Island Man’ is about a man born in the carribbean who still wakes up to the sound of the sea that he misses, while the narrative in ‘Nothing’s Changed’ is about a black man visiting District Six, a place where apartheid has been believed to have ended when in fact, nothing’s changed and there are still tensions and a social divide between the whites and blacks there – the two narrative’s, while being both about home, bear very little resembelance,

(The title and the last line of the poem are the same...Afrika then has framed his poem between the two...it's the same old District Six he returns to and he is emphasising the fact that nothing has changed...Afrika was talking about the outside world believing that apartheid had ended when in reality it was still very much in existence....so nothing's changed at the beginining...and by the end of the poem still nothing has changed...so by by framing his poem in this way he gives a visual representation that things are still the same....)
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I have decided to base my magazine off PC gaming as I have a lot of knowledge on the subject and there is a lot to talk about in PC gaming. Moreover, there are many magazines on gaming, making it easy to research.
For my front cover, I will be drawing an image of a popular gaming character, using Macromedia Flash, as I’ve used it in the past for designing images. Here is the image I will be using:

I have used Photoshop to add a drop shadow and may make more slight changes to the image when integrating it onto my magazine.

The title of my magazine will be “Gamer’s Guide” to immediately inform viewers that the magazine is about gaming and also because of the alliteration. My colour theme will be a blue, matching that of my picture. I will be having using sub headings and a large title and generally trying to make everything look accessible and not too cluttered.
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