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Anaylis of Search for my Tongue
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12 November 2006 Analysis of "Search for my Tongue" by Sujata Bhatt This poem has three sections, although it is only split into two stanzas. There are two parts of English, with a foreign language sandwiched in between. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem and no deliberate rhythm. It is written just like somebody speaking, and indeed when it starts with, "You ask me what I mean," it seems as though it is just carrying on from a previous conversation. The language is very simple, possibly because the English bits are meant to be the bits that are foreign to the author. "Search for my Tongue" is a poem about speaking a foreign language, and living in a foreign country, for a long period of time. It talks about losing the "mother tongue," and this being a bad thing. There are many ways of expressing this. In the...
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