Comparing Cultures and Traditions in Poetry
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Comparing Cultures and Traditions in Poetry When you start to break down barriers within poems you begin to discover political and cultural differences, and how they should be addressed. It is important to look at, and discuss structure, language and imagery in order to compare the two poems fully. The two poems "Search for my tongue" and "Not my business" are both written by poets from very different backgrounds and cultures, looking to get their point across. Bhatt emphasises in his poem the on-going concerns of dying traditional languages and the fact that if you learn a new language, your old language could fade away. Osundare a Nigerian poet describes the growth of tyranny and if people ignore this growth, the tyranny will grow and grow till you become directly involved with it, Osundare's poem is based upon Pasto Neimaller's speech about Nazis in WWI and how they forcibly removed Jews from...


