Search For My Tongue and Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan :: Poems Poetry Essays

Search For My Tongue and Presents From My Aunts In PakistanThe first metrical composition Search focuses on less visual transaction such aslanguage. She writes the beginning and of the poem in slope scarce themiddle is made up of Gujerati. Even though we cannot tell what the piece of writing means it doesnt matter because we still get the same effectfrom it, the almost angriness and distress from the poet, Sujata Bhatt. The some other poem Presents uses visual items c atomic number 18 robes to show thedifference in cultures my costume clung to me I was aflame. MonizaAlvi teachs her Pakistani clothes as a costume rather than normalclothes. She calls it this because they are so different to Englishclothes that when she bring outs them its like she is position on a playand she is an actress at the weekends. I greated for denim andcorduroy. nigh people see Pakistani clothes as beautiful creations only when she doesnt like them and would prefer to wear boring Englishclothes s uch as jeans. All through the poem presents the poet talks about the difference in the ii cultures and explains that she feelsshe has no fixed nationality and like the other poet lacks empathyform the reader and wants the reader to know how it feels to have two disassemble parts of your life. Moniza Alvi calls her Pakistani clothesher weekend clothes this shows that she doesnt see them as clothesshe wants to wear but clothes she is forced to wear by her parents andrelatives so that she remembers her culture in Pakistan. some(prenominal) poets feel as if they dont belong in either culture they long tojust have a simple background from one demesne although other peoplewho have that wish that they had different exciting backgrounds.Both poems are autobiographical and talk to you as a the reader notto a group of people. You ask me what I mean is the first assembly line ofSearch for my Tongue Sujata Bhatt uses the first line to show thatshe is answering a question, not that anyone ha s directly asked butthat she knows people are thinking. Unlike Presents from my auntswhich uses a lot of similes throughout the poem this poem is one bigmetaphor. If you had two tongues in your mouth, and lost the firstone. The poet describes her language all through the poem like shehas two tongues in her mouth and Gujerati is her mother tongue andEnglish is her foreign tongueIn each poem the poets both want to get rid of their original cultures