Why is identity so important to poets from a different culture?

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Why is identity so important to poets from a different culture?

I believe that poets struggle to find their true identity as they might have an ongoing battle between two, as in ‘search for my tongue’, it is about the poet  who has ‘two tongues in her mouth’ which symbolizes her two cultures, which displays her two identities.

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In the poem, there is an ongoing battle between her ‘mother tongue’ and her ‘foreign tongue’ and how she cannot ‘use them both together’ – showing that the two cultures would clash. To try and solve this, the poet tries to have one identity – one culture to fit into, but no matter how hard she tries and no matter how much she thinks she has moved on, ‘I think I’ve forgotten’, it always ‘grows back’.

This is like in ‘presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’, as in this poem, the poet also wants just the one identity as she ...

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