“Search For My Tongue” and “Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan”
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Sarah Belfield Comparison Of Two Poems A persons culture is their background and very important to someone's life and in both poems "Search For My Tongue" and "Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan" show the difficulties of having two different cultures . The first poem "Search" focuses on less visual effects such as language. She writes the beginning and of the poem in English but the middle is made up of Gujerati. Even though we cannot tell what the writing means it doesn't matter because we still get the same effect from it, the almost angriness and distress from the poet, Sujata Bhatt . The other poem "Presents" uses visual items like clothes to show the difference in cultures: "my costume clung to me I was aflame." Moniza Alvi sees her Pakistani clothes as a "costume" rather than normal clothes. She calls it this because they are so different to English...


