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Half caste, Unrelated incidents, Search for my tongue
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POETRY Half caste, Unrelated incidents, Search for my tongue By Gurdeep Sian I will be discussing how the three poems "Halfe Caste", "Unrelated incidents", and "search for my tongue" do not use standard English. I will be exploring the poets motivation and discussing how the poets deviate from standard English. In the poem "Search for my tongue" the poet Sujata Bhatt uses the language Gujarat. Using an alternative language such as (Gujarat) has an effect in ways that it shows how Sujata Bhatt had went from speaking English to Gujarat and back to English. It has an effect showing how she has two tongues in her mouth, one the English tongue, and the other tongue being the foreign tongue. Sujata's English tongue is talking however overnight her Gujarat tongue has taken over in her dreams. Then in the morning her English tongue comes back like a flower growing, "the bud opens,...
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