Example 1

taut lips...my jaw tight like a vice
The verbs 'taut' and 'tight' highlight how tense Gay feels while the police officer is looking over him and the car. This connects to the racial profiling that many people in the US experience, and the high levels of anxiety and anger that this provokes. Gay's physical reaction can be interpreted as both of these emotions.
We can clearly see the high levels of tension experienced by Ross Gay in the poem.
The simile presents how restricted he feels. Vices clamp down and limit movement, just like he has to limit his own for fear of what might happen.
Both writers present the anger that these episodes create in the narrators. Gay's physical tension and Afrika's breathing emphasize that the racial prejudice present in both societies is a source of enormous anxiety for them both.
Nothing's Changed also presents the tension felt by the narrator. Afrika tell us about...
the soft labouring of my lungs
The alliteration here focuses us on the fact that his breathing is 'laboring', which suggests that he is angry and upset over what he sees here. The fact that District 6 has become exclusive and still does not allow black South Africans is clearly infuriating. The personification of his lungs backs up the intensity of his emotions here.

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