Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan and Search for my tongue both show people thinking about their 'roots'. How does each poem convey their thoughts and feelings?

... Poems from other cultures and traditions. We have been studying two poems from two different cultures, they are 'Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan' and 'Search for my tongue'. Both poems explore and explain the fact of coping with two unlike cultures. We will be looking at how each poet conveys their thoughts and feelings about their culture through their poems. We will also explore the way the poets explore their 'roots'. Our group will also attempt to look at the following points in the poems: the similarities and differences in the poems, the structural and presentational devices used and the poet's use of language. Both poets show through their poems how problematic it can be to be from a different culture and live in a peculiar environment. In Sujata Bhatt's poem, 'Search for my tongue' she explains to the audience what it is like to speak and

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