Search For My Tongue- Sujata Bhatt
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- Created on: 09-11-11 11:11
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Search For My Tongue- Sujata Bhatt
- The language symbolises cultural identity- never dies regardless of where you are
- The 2 languages used in the poem (English and Gujerati) represent the 2 identities of the writer
- 1. "You ask me what I mean"- conversational- enages the reader for empathy
- 2. "Lost my tongue"- isolation in new culture
- 4. "Two tongues"- literally and metaphorically
- 5. "Mother tongue"- feels familiar, close to, cares
- 7. "Foreign tongue"- not hers, alien (Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan). The tongue is an extended…
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