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Compare what you are shown about the importance of identity in ‘search for my tongue’ and ‘half caste’.
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Compare what you are shown about the importance of identity in `search for my tongue' and `half caste'. In the poem `Search for my Tongue' Sujata Bhatt shows her importance of identity in several different ways. When she explains she loses her mother tongue over her other language, she is losing part of herself, her home language/ her culture. "If you had two tongues inside your mouth and you lost the first one, the mother tongue." This tells us she is forgetting it and so the importance of identity comes from culture and language. In English, we use the word 'tongue' to mean 'language' as well as your actual 'tongue'. The poet compares knowing two languages to having two tongues in your mouth, which she calls 'the mother tongue' (her original language) and 'the foreign tongue' (the new language she has learnt). She is afraid that the mother tongue...
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