GCSE English: "Two Scavengers" Study Guide

Video revision guide on "Two scavengers in a truck / Two beautiful people in a Mercedes". Script and presentation were made by some of my Year 11 students however they didn't want me to broadcast them so I stepped in! Relevant comments and questions welcome as always, don't forget to subscribe.

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[spolo18]

I personally think that the poem is wrong to criticize democracy or we as readers are. Democracy is not a system that grants 'economic' equality it give equality via the vote in which everyone has a fair chance to cast their opinion on society. Instead we should criticize capitalism for the divide between the classes and for the fact that there even is classes. for that is the system that drives the profit motif into the ground and deliberately holds money above people.

[bm124]

@spolo18 I agree with you however be careful as this is not a poem which criticises democracy itself. Ferlinghetti uses the term "democracy" ironically to criticise the social and economic divide which exists in the USA, a divide which exists as a result of a self serving capitalist system, not a democratic one (although that may not be what I say in this video as it was scripted by some of my Y11 students last year who were too shy to record it themselves)

[taherabc12]

THIS GUY GOT ME FROM A PREDICTED GRADE "D", TO GRADE "B" for my english language exam- Brilliant!

Thanks alot.

[ofmiceandmenwork]

thumbs up if you got this question in your exam and this video was so much help!! :D

[TheWalsh09]

Thank you soooooooooooo much. You just saved my English GCSE this afternoon. I know you must get this a lot but thanks. When I walked into the exam and saw 2 scavengers i knew youd saved me especially with your stuff on nothings changed as well . Yay :)

[TheWalsh09]

Thank you soooooooooooo much. You saved my English GCSE this afternoon. I know you must get this a lot but thanks. When I walked into the exam and saw 2 scavengers i knew youd saved me. Especially with your stuff on nothings changed. Yay. :)

[DrBadass92]

@Neonxceh i did nothing's changed too lol finger crossed buddy :D

[DrBadass92]

just watched this after taking my exam a couple of hours ago..... yep i failed :S what about comparing this with "Nothing's Changed" :(

[fizcake]

Thank you for all your help on all of your videos, I was a religious watcher and I think it certainly paid off when I got this poem in the exam!

[Neonxceh]

This is the poem that came up in the exam, you had to compare political and social ideas in this poem with one other (I did nothing's changed), thankfully I watched your revision videos and I aced it! :D Thank you so much!

[prettybadusername]

The muddled up structure of the poem could also represent the rubbish of the bin men.

[iSuuperMann]

Ahh comparing it to What Were They Like is such a good shout! i was gonna compare it to Nothing's Changed just because they were both about discrimination/segregation, thanks man :)

[TheJokaAce]

Great interpretations (referring to all of them)