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How does the poet use language, imagery and form to make their person expressive in the three chosen poems 'from other cultures and traditions'?
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How does the poet use language, imagery and form to make their person expressive in the three chosen poems 'from other cultures and traditions'? In poetry, poets should use the three techniques stated in the title to make their person and poem expressive. They can also use extended metaphors to give that little add of feeling to it. The three chosen poems for this essay are, 'Search For My Tongue', 'Hurricane Hits England' and 'Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan'. 'Search For My Tongue' is a poem about a Gujarati woman called Sujata Bhatt that had moved to another country resulting in her having to speak 'a foreign tongue'. She felt alienated because she felt out of place as the 'mother tongue' died in her mouth but returned to her overnight in a dream where it grew back, stronger than the 'foreign tongue'. Sujata Bhatt uses language to create a feeling...
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