The Poetry of Benjamin Zephaniah

Chapter 3

In the second paragraph, there is a description of the clothes Martin is wearing and his own thoughts about his outfit.
What is the role APPEARANCE plays in his life?

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The poem “Who’s Who” is a short but meaningful poem in the sense that shows the steps of realization that things aren’t what they seem, of understanding of the other after being in their shoes. The stereotypical gender labelling of nurses as females and police as males, as well as poets being boring serves as a tool for the realization and argument against those stereotypes in the final line, i.e., becoming them.