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 poem Search focuses on less visual effects such aslanguage. She writes the beginning and of the poem in English but themiddle is made up of Gujerati. Even though we cannot tell what thewriting means it doesnt matter because we still charm the same effectfrom it, the almost angriness and distress from the poet, Sujata Bhatt. The other poem Presents uses visual items like frock to show thedifference in cultures my costume clung to me I was aflame. MonizaAlvi sees her Pakistani clothes as a costume rather than normalclothes. She calls it this because they are so different to Englishclothes that when she wears them its like she is place on a playand she is an actress at the weekends. I longed for denim andcorduroy. Most people see Pakistani clothes as beautiful creationsbut she doesnt like them and would prefer to wear boring Englishclothes such as jeans. All through the poem presents the poet talksabout the differen ce in the two cultures and explains that she feelsshe has no fixed nationality and like the other poet wants empathyform the contributor and wants the reader to know how it feels to have twoseparate 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.Both poets feel as if they dont belong in either culture they long tojust have a simple footing from one country 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 line ofSearch for my Tongue Sujata Bhatt uses the first line to show thatshe is answering a question, not that anyone has 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 dialects 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