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How do the poets of “half-caste” and “search for my tongue” feel about their multicultural backgrounds and how do they communicate it?
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How do the poets of "half-caste" and "search for my tongue" feel about their multicultural backgrounds and how do they communicate it? Both of these poets John Agard and Sujata Bhatt write poems about their multicultural backgrounds. In John Agard's poem "half-caste" he starts off with Standard English. But as he goes on through out the poem he uses Caribbean dialect. His poem is about his feelings towards being multicultural. He feels angry, sad and is questioning his audience. In Sujata Bhatt's poem "search for my tongue" she has many feelings about her mother tongue and how she doesn't want to lose her first language. She is feeling sad because she thinks she is loosing her mother tongue but it comes back in her dream and she feels happy again. John Agard was born in Guyana but moved to England in 1977 so he has lived in England for 30 years. John...
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