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Exploring how the poets convey a sense of alienation from society trough their poems.
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Exploring on how the poets convey a sense of alienation from society trough their poems The following poems convey a sense of alienation from society. 'Search for My tongue' by Sujata Bhatt, 'Half-Caste' by John Agard and 'Nothing's changed' by , all used a range of devices such as imagery and structure to explore the theme and to convey a sense of alienation from society. The first poem, 'Search for My Tongue', deals with alienation when learning a new language in an unknown country. The poet is trying to show the reader that how difficult it is to maintain two languages simultaneously: the mother tongue and the foreign tongue. She feels alien in her own country, not to be able to speak her own language and also in the foreign country, not to be able to speak the foreign language. The poet uses metaphors to describe the languages she knows as tongue....
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