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This essay will be comparing ‘Presents from my aunts in Pakistan’ talking about the difficulty in belonging to two cultures and ‘Half – caste’
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Both poems I have chosen are about identity and both use first person narrator to talk about autobiographical experiences. This essay will be comparing 'Presents from my aunts in Pakistan' talking about the difficulty in belonging to two cultures and 'Half - caste' which uses attacking language to get the poems point across. In presents from my aunts in Pakistan the writer describes gifts of the clothes and jewellery sent to her in England by her Pakistani relatives, she is drawn to the loveliness of the things given but feels much more comfortable in denim and corduroy. The poem is made of long lines, these lines aren't aligned neatly on the page but instead they are spread across the page, sometimes starting on the right hand side or the left. This symbolizes how the girl is feeling inside; it shows that she's torn between her Asian culture and her English Culture...
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