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How does the poet express the difficulties of being in a minority
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How does the poet express the difficulties of being in a minority? In the poem 'Search for my tongue' Bhatt has expressed how through her own personal experience she has found learning a new language to be difficult physically and emotionally. Throughout the poem she has conveyed how her 'mother language' Gujarati slowly started to erode, as she took on her 'foreign tongue' English. She shows this through not only the vocabulary of the poem but the structure etc too. The intention of the poem is to convey how although learning a new language is extremely difficult, your 'mother tongue' will always remain an essential part of your identity. Bhatt is worried that she is forgetting her mother tongue and that her second language will never be as natural. At the start of the poem Bhatt uses a second person address and conversational language 'You ask me what I mean' and...
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