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How important is language to the poets' identities in "Search for My Tongue" and "Unrelated Incidents"? 'Search for my Tongue is about a woman who is from India who is living in an English speaking country. She feels she has lost her mother tongue because she can't speak to anyone in her preferred language. She wants readers to imagine how it would feel if they were in her position because all she can speak is other people's language in order to survive. She wants the reader to know that the language she is speaking is a stranger to her. She rejoices her language in her dreams and this shows that her language or mother tongue will never leave her. 'Unrelated Incidents' is also a poem about language and identity. The poem is about as Glaswegian poet from Glasgow. He is angry that the history of dialect in this country is linked directly...

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