Presents from my aunts in pakistan on context structure and imagery.

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G.C.S.E Writing and Literature Coursework

Wednesday 28th November

Poems from different cultures

Compare and contrast “Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan” by Moniza Alvi with “Search for my tongue” by Sujata Bhatt, paying particular attention to how the writers use language, imagery and structure to put across the experience of feeling divided between different cultures.

     For this essay I have chosen to first write about the poem by Moniza Alvi called “Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan”. Moniza Alvi comes from a family of completely different cultures, a daughter of a Pakistani father and a British mother. As a baby of a few moths, she was brought over from Pakistan to Hatfield here in England, to be brought up here.

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     Growing up Moniza always knew of her Pakistani roots, but still felt uncomfortable knowing that she was undecided on what her true identity was. As her father was Pakistan and her mother English, she was obviously not brought up in a religious way, and had been more brought up with her English roots by far than her Pakistan. Moniza still heard from her aunts in Pakistan, as they would send her gifts. The salwar kameez she describes as “peacock blue and another glistening like an orange split open”, from the way she describes her clothes in the first ...

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