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Looking at both "Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan" and "Search For My Tongue", there is a similarity between the poems because both poets have a shared experience of living between two cultures and these experiences led to the writing of the two poems.
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Hayley Chadwick. Different Cultures Poetry Assignment. Looking at both "Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan" and "Search For My Tongue", there is a similarity between the poems because both poets have a shared experience of living between two cultures and these experiences led to the writing of the two poems. Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1954 and was brought to England when she was only a few months old. Her Father was from Pakistan and her Mother was English. Alvi has said, "I never feel at entirely at home in England, and of course I'm not part of the Asian community." Alvi doesn't feel she belongs to any culture "Of no fixed nationality" and she writes about her own feelings in her poem Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan. Whereas Sujata Bhatt was born in India in 1956 and left for America at 12 years old where she was forced...
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