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COMPARE & CONTRAST THE POETS PRESENTATION OF FOREIGN CULTURES AND RELATED ISSUES The three poems I will be comparing and contrasting are 'Search For My Tongue' by Sujata Bhatt, 'Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan' by Moniza Alvi and 'Night Of The Scorpion' by Nissim Ezekiel. Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore in Pakistan, the daughter of a Pakistani father and an English mother. She came to live in England when she was only a few months old and didn't revisit Pakistan until she was much older. She found it important to write the Pakistani poems to get in touch with her background, perhaps as a way of exploring her own feelings about her cultural identity. She had tried to imagine a life in Pakistan by looking at old family photographs and news reports on television. Sujata Bhatt was born in India, moved to America and now lives in Germany. She explores...

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