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Comparing ‘Search for my tongue’ with ‘Presents from my aunt in Pakistan’ Search for my tongue and Presents from my aunt in Pakistan are two poems that explore
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yy Comparing 'Search for my tongue' with 'Presents from my aunt in Pakistan' Search for my tongue and Presents from my aunt in Pakistan are two poems that explore from a personal viewpoint what is like to grow up in unfamiliar and different culture. Both poems consider the conflict that exits when a person tries to fit into a new culture. Search for my tongue considers what it is like when you feel you are losing your culture while presents from my aunt in Pakistan considers how to regain ones culture. Moniza Alvi wrote 'presents from my aunts in Pakistan'. She was born in Pakistan in 1954 but was moved to England when she was a young child. When she had visited Pakistan she felt very English because her culture background was affecting her more than she realised. At the start of the poem there is a...
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