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Choose from two poems that deal with inner conflict or confusion and show how this is developed through the language and imagery - 'Search For My Tongue' and 'Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan'.
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Poems from other cultures. Choose from two poems that deal with inner conflict or confusion and show how this is developed through the language and imagery. Both 'Search For My Tongue' and 'Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan' deal with the idea of inner conflict or confusion. 'Search For My Tongue' concerns coming to terms with living in a foreign country and feeling disconnected from your cultural background. However, 'Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan' shows how contact with the old environment can make integration into the new one difficult. 'Search For My Tongue' suggests that the poet feels she has lost an important part of herself that she feels she needs to recover to feel her self again. The poet says, 'Lost the first one, the mother tongue, and could not really no the other'. The original language is associated with being nurturing, protecting, loving. The second...
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