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Examine how two poets explore the sense of suffering their cultures cause them.  

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Examine how two poets and explore the sense of suffering their cultures cause them. This essay will explore how the poets Sujata Bhatt who wrote 'Search for my tongue' and Moniza Alvi who wrote 'Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan' describe the sense of suffering that the person in the poem's culture causes them. To explore the sense of suffering, the reader can look at the language, the structure, the tone, the attitude of the poem and other features in the poem. In the two poems, 'Search for my tongue' and 'Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan' you can see that there is a sense of suffering. In 'Search for my tongue' you can see the suffering when the poets says 'Your mother tongue would rot, Rot and die in your mouth until you had to spit it out' (Lines 12-14) and in 'Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan' when the poet...

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