Comparison of Search for my tongue by Sujata Bhatt and Unrelated incidents by Tom Leonard.
Comparison of Poems Search for my tongue and Unrelated incidents use very different languages to portray different identities. Search for my tongue by Sujata Bhatt is a poem where the author is expressing her feelings about losing her mother tongue; and she thinks she is unable to regain it. It portrays a message that if we develop a foreign tongue we forget our mother tongue. Sujata Bhatt expresses this valid theory by the poetic language she uses to portray her message. Unrelated incidents by Tom Leonard is a difficult poem to understand and interpret as it uses a lot of slang words, which is mainly Scottish dialect used on the streets. What I have interpreted of it was that the six o'clock news was being read out in slang terms. This creates a distinct identity because of the use of slang words. What the author of this poem is trying to depict is that we can't tell the news in a street slang manner and be believed. It doesn't matter how you portray the language it is what you say. Search for my tongue uses very poetic language throughout the poem especially in lines 31-38, where it uses a lot of metaphors. The author engages the reader by asking a rhetorical question: "I ask you, what you would do, if you had two tongues in your mouth, and lost the first one, the mother tongue, and could not really know the other, the foreign tongue." This makes the reader question
With close reference Search for my tongue written by Sujata Bhatt, and Still I rise by Maya Angelou both explore the effective
Rebecca Leverett English Poetry Assignment With close reference "Search for my tongue" written by Sujata Bhatt, and "Still I rise" by Maya Angelou both explore the effectiveness of their celebration of culture and traditions. The two poems are about both poets reflecting upon how important it is to keep in touch with cultures and traditions, to be proud of who you are and where you come from. "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou, a confident defiant woman with lots of personality, pumps her sassiness into the poem to do nothing but inspire and move us. It is an inspiring poem about the poet herself overcoming great obstacles which her and her family has fought against all their lives. Her poem is a call to have pride in yourself no matter what you are, or where you come from. It evokes a feeling of great human spirit and, you can't but pay attention to the possibility that it is dedicated to one particular culture or race, the black slaves. Angelou's strong personality mirrors the way in which she decided to set the poem out in rhyming verse. It's strong, yet upbeat bouncy feel cries to be read out aloud which also reflects her powerful, independent personality. Her defiance immediately starts to shine from the first stanza. After all the negativity, "...bitter, twisted lies", "...trod me in the very dirt" she will still get up and rise against it all, not
The poem Search for my Tongue, written by Indian born author Sajata Bhatt, is about a girl who is worried she is forgetting her mother tongue.
"Search for my Tongue" The poem "Search for my Tongue", written by Indian born author Sajata Bhatt, is about a girl who is worried she is forgetting her mother tongue. In my opinion, the poet wrote the poem to try and help people understand the difficulty of speaking two languages. I think she is trying to get across the message that you will never loose something that is such a big part of who you are. There are different emotions throughout the poem. At first, the girl feels confused and sad, as she is scared of losing her native language of Indian: "...and lost the first one, the mother tongue, and could not really know the other". Towards the middle, the girl speaks quite angrily and fiercely: "rot and die in your mouth, until you had to spit it out", using negative words such as "rot" and "die". This could be because she is frustrated with herself for not practicing the Indian language, and therefore feeling like she has forgotten it. However, at the end of the poem, the girl realises that she dreams in Indian, and so has not lost her mother tongue: "the bud opens, the bud opens in my mouth". She is full of joy, and is much more confident. This time she uses happier words, like "blossoms". With all these different emotions, I think the poet is trying to get the reader to feel the confusion the girl is going through. There are no stanzas or rhyme in the poem (which
Write About How Sujata Bhatt and Moniza Alvi convey their views on different cultures in 'Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan' and 'Search For My Tongue'
Write About How Sujata Bhatt and Moniza Alvi convey their views on different cultures in 'Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan' and 'Search For My Tongue' For my essay I am going to compare 'Search For My Tongue' by Sujata Bhatt and 'Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan' by Moniza Alvi. 'Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan' is autobiographical. It is set in England where the author talks about and describes the presents that she receives from her Aunts who live in Pakistan. 'Search for my Tongue' is written while living in Germany but during her life Sujata Bhatt has had to speak three different languages. These are: Gujarati, English and German. She writes how she feels at the way that she has to lose or forget her original language which is Gujarati and only speak the language of the country that she is living in which is currently Germany and then she realises that although she has to speak German on the streets she doesn't have to speak it at home and she doesn't have to write or think in German. She realises that not speaking a language does not mean that you have lost your cultural identity. In 'Search for my Tongue' I think that Sujata Bhatt does not like having to belong to two cultures. The line ' if you lived in a place you had to speak a foreign tongue' reinforces this point. The words 'had to' suggest the fact that she is being forced to speak German when she really
Exploring how the poets convey a sense of alienation from society trough their poems.
Exploring on how the poets convey a sense of alienation from society trough their poems The following poems convey a sense of alienation from society. 'Search for My tongue' by Sujata Bhatt, 'Half-Caste' by John Agard and 'Nothing's changed' by , all used a range of devices such as imagery and structure to explore the theme and to convey a sense of alienation from society. The first poem, 'Search for My Tongue', deals with alienation when learning a new language in an unknown country. The poet is trying to show the reader that how difficult it is to maintain two languages simultaneously: the mother tongue and the foreign tongue. She feels alien in her own country, not to be able to speak her own language and also in the foreign country, not to be able to speak the foreign language. The poet uses metaphors to describe the languages she knows as tongue. "If you had two tongues in your mouth...". She used this to show that if you really lost your tongue, then it is difficult for you communicate with people thus making you feel alienated or left out to the society. This line also suggest to me that the poet accuses the reader to make the reader feel the same way as the poet do, to have two tongues and having problems to maintain them. The first stanza of the poem is telling us that the poet is trying to search or remember her mother tongue. This
Looking at both "Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan" and "Search For My Tongue", there is a similarity between the poems because both poets have a shared experience of living between two cultures and these experiences led to the writing of the two poems.
Hayley Chadwick. Different Cultures Poetry Assignment. Looking at both "Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan" and "Search For My Tongue", there is a similarity between the poems because both poets have a shared experience of living between two cultures and these experiences led to the writing of the two poems. Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1954 and was brought to England when she was only a few months old. Her Father was from Pakistan and her Mother was English. Alvi has said, "I never feel at entirely at home in England, and of course I'm not part of the Asian community." Alvi doesn't feel she belongs to any culture "Of no fixed nationality" and she writes about her own feelings in her poem Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan. Whereas Sujata Bhatt was born in India in 1956 and left for America at 12 years old where she was forced to speak another language and experienced a loss of culture, she has two ways of life and she fears she is losing her Indian way- she shows her feelings about this in her poem Search For My Tongue. In Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan, the first fifteens lines describe some presents sent to Alvi when she was a girl living in England which are two salwar kameez which are both bright and colourful, embossed slippers which are gold and black which shows signs of richness and wealth, an apple green sari which was silver bordered which
Compare the two poems, 'Presents from my aunts in Pakistan' and 'Search for my tongue' - Both poems shows people thinking about their roots and how each poem conveys their thoughts and feelings.
Compare the two poems, 'Presents from my aunts in Pakistan' and 'Search for my tongue'. Both poems shows people thinking about their roots and how each poem conveys their thoughts and feelings. In this essay I will be evaluating two poems from different cultures and traditions. Both poems 'Search for my tongue' and 'presents from my aunts in Pakistan' are about true identity and searching for your roots. 'Presents from my aunts in Pakistan' is mainly about a girl who is of mixed race and how she describes the gifts of clothes and jewellery sent to her in England by her Pakistani relatives. There is no rhyme scheme and the poem is written in free verse. Free verse simply means that the phrases are arranged loosely across the page. It is divided into stanzas of varying length. The girl contrasts the beautiful clothes and jewellery of India with English clothing. She describes how it feels like wearing the 'salwar kameez' and how she longed for denim and corduroy. She's drawn to the loveliness of the gifts but feels awkward wearing them because she is more comfortable in English clothes. The poem is full of associated, sometimes contrasting images. An example of a contrasting image is '... of no fixed nationality staring through fretwork in the Shalimar gardens.' Fretwork is basically decorative carving and the Shalimar gardens is an ornamental ark in Lahore, her hometown.
Sujata Bhatt has two main culturalidentities Indian and English, which are represented by her use of language.Her 'mother tongue' is Gujerati, and her English voice, an adopted, becomes a'foreign voice'. This is the conflict between cultural identit...
Sujata Bhatt has two main cultural identities Indian and English, which are represented by her use of language. Her 'mother tongue' is Gujerati, and her English voice, an adopted, becomes a 'foreign voice'. This is the conflict between cultural identities. However, this is resolved because her 'mother tongue' reasserts itself - she remembers her first language and how it represents the culture of her birthplace. To represent this language, the re-emerging 'mother tongue', the poet uses the metaphor/image of blooming buds and blossoming flower. This is a positive image. The writer also represents her shared language/culture by the way the poem is presented on the page. The middle section of the poem is written in Gujerati. This is framed on either side by her English language. Therefore, the Gujerati voice is presented as a shared part of her English voice. On the other hand John Agard uses the term 'half-caste' to obviously represent the idea of a shared identity. A key feature of this poem is how it uses satire to make important points about individual identity and racism. He ridicules the idea of seeing anything or anyone as half of something by asking a series of rhetorical questions so that the overall message is - should we refer to someone as 'half-caste'? The echoing answer is always 'NO'. These poems can be linked as protest poems, poems that raise and to a degree
I will compare two poems from completely different cultures to see if we get any comparisons, the poems I have chosen to write about are Half-Caste by John Agard and Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt,
Culture. It's a very complicated term, with many different interpretations, but what does it actually mean? In this essay I will compare two poems from completely different cultures to see if we get any comparisons, the poems I have chosen to write about are Half-Caste by John Agard and Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt, I have chosen these because I feel they raise some very significant points. But back to the question mentioned earlier, what is culture? Everyone has a different view on culture, but to me it is a huge influence on our everyday lives, many different issues contribute to the term 'Culture' from the way we dress, to our beliefs, attributes, how we live, and even what we eat. It affects us all differently depending on how we understand it, for example, if we were to believe that culture was just a religious matter we would only be affected by what that religion tells us, whereas if we were to believe that culture was a whole way of life we would be affected in a completely different way. Culture is important to us all, regardless of how we feel about it, it gives us a guide to our lives and shows us some boundaries; it can also give us advice and help us to be a better person. The word 'different' can be used in two contexts; we can say it both complimentarily and offensively, my understanding of this is that some people are afraid of what's different and
Nothings changed - Choose two poems which make a connection between the past and the present, and explain what this connection means to each writer.
Nothings changed-Choose two poems which make a connection between the past and the present, and explain what this connection means to each writer. When he goes back to the district it's all overgrown. He steps through the rubbish and weeds. It says the weeds are 'amiable' which means friendly, as if the weeds don't know what he knows. He knows in his bones this is where he used to live. It's as if the feeling starts in his feet and works its way up through him, and he gets hotter and more intense, until he suddenly sees this 'brash' new building. 'Squats' makes you think of a toad, or something heavy and solid, and also squatting is when you live somewhere illegal, like the inn shouldn't ever have been there. When he peers in through the glass it's all cool and elegant inside, not the sort of place they would let in anyone. He says 'we know where we belong', meaning outside looking in. So although it no longer says 'Whites Only' on a board, like it used to, only rich white people would feel they had the right to be there. Charollte o neils song-Choose two poems which communicate a sense of injustice, and show how the poets have succeeded in doing this. The rhythm of the poem is very vigorous and assertive. You can imagine it sung in a rebellious way - she's had enough. The stress falls on the important words in each line, especially the verbs, which emphasises all the