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Compare Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan to Search for my tongue
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Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan and Search for My Tongue both show people thinking about their roots. How does each poet convey their thoughts and feelings? In presents from my Aunts in Pakistan and Search for my tongue, the poets make clear to the reader their strong feelings that they have about their roots. The first poem that I am going to talk about is Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi. Moniza Alvi comes from Pakistan and writes a poem in first person and is in autobiographical format. Alvi tells us that she is a mixed race girl who receives gifts from family who live in Pakistan; she describes the gifts of clothes and jewellery sent to her in England by her Pakistani relatives. Moniza Alvi contrasts the exotic clothes and jewellery sent to her by her aunts with what she saw around her in her school, and...
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