Thanks =) Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. At first she is worried that it is going to ‘rot and die’ (that she is forgetting it), but then in lines 30-35: it ‘grows’, ‘shoots’, ‘buds’, ‘blossoms’, representing the poet growing in confidence , remembering Gujarati words, forming them on her lips, and finally speaking them full out fluently in Gujarati. The repetition: ‘the bud opens … the bud opens’ symbolises the unstoppableness of the process, but also her excitement that it is happening and that she is re-finding her Gujarati identity. For example, in “Search for My Tongue,” the words tongue and mouth are very abundant. She has described Gujarati and the Indian childhood it connects her to as “the deepest layer of my … These very physical objects replace her native language of Guajarati and foreign language of English. You ask me what I mean by saying I have lost my tongue. There are two parts of English, with a foreign language sandwiched in between. The fact that Bhatt is Asian may suggest that she is referring to how the English colonised India, imposing laws and language. In Sujata’s poem ‘ Search For My Tongue’, portrays the sense of belonging to culture and communication though the text, her belongs to the culture shows much clearer in the text by using techniques such as personification, repetition and visual imagery. Change ). Cholmondeley Award. ‘Search for My Tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt is a poem about the feelings and experiences that an individual may encounter when they move to a foreign country, significantly different from their home country and cultural background. ‘munay hutoo’), then she translates it for us (meaning: ‘It grows back’). If anyone knows of a good link for a poetry website, or has a copy of it that they could send me, I would really appreciate it! The allusion to her ‘dreams’ has TWO meanings – one, that she speaks Gujarati literally in her dreams, but also, it is her ‘dream’ (her longing) to speak it always. Then, however, as she dreams, her mother tongue re-asserts itself as her first language. In the first stanza, there is a lot of mention of "the mother tongue" and "the foreign tongue." There is the conversational of the opening, the extended metaphor of language being like a plant, and there is also the use of Gujarati. 18/1/16 Poem: ‘Search for my Tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt. The second stanza is in her own language and stanza three is about her being able to remember how to speak her own language again. What is the effect on you as a reader of this section of the poem? My sister needs to find this poem on the internet as she lost her copy; I have been searching for it for her for like half an hour now, and I can't find it anywhere!!!! One a powerful image is of her tongue rotting in her mouth and her ‘spitting it out’, reflecting the horror and disgust she felt at losing her tongue and Indian identity. This poem is about Sujata Bhatt being afraid that she was losing her identity as a Gujarati-speaking Indian. A year 10 revision guide for the poem "Search for my tongue". The two poems "Search for my tongue" and "Not my business" are both written by poets from very different backgrounds and cultures, looking to get their point across. The poem reminds me of how, as I have grown older, I too have lost some of the good habits and practices of childhood – and perhaps I ought to return to them! poems search for my tongue and half-caste to show how they both relate to culture but are different in the ways they approach the subject. The repercussions of this divided heritage are explored in her work, most explicitly in ‘Search for My Tongue’ which alternates between the two languages. Open up wide and enjoy the taste of this poem. The poem can either be simply read as being about one person's experience of moving to a foreign country and speaking two languages. The 'The choice of words makes the original language sound like something disgusting, like phlegm perhaps. 16. You can sense her happiness when she writes: ‘overnight while I dream … every time I think I’ve forgotten … it blossoms out of my mouth’. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Designed to support English teachers, non-specialist teachers and teaching assistants in identifying and ‘fixing’ problems in students’ writing. Baths internal conflicts are voiced out to the world, searching for an answer to the question I ask you, what would you do (3). Quotes from all famous poets. (Saying “tongue” for “speech” is an example of metonymy). The poet feels it is not possible to fully understand or become completely part of another culture. The first language/culture is shown to be lasting, and in the flower imagery is thought of here as something natural, beautiful and eternal. I ask you, what would you do if you had two tongues in your mouth, and lost the first one, the mother tongue, and could not really know the other, the foreign tongue. Analysis of 'Search for my Tongue' by Sujata Bhatt in preparation for the Edexcel IGCSE English Literature examination, Paper 1 In this poem "search for my tongue", i think that it expresses a lot of confusion and fear in why she keeps losing her tongue. It has an effect showing how she has two tongues in her mouth, one the English tongue, and Navigation. ( Log Out /  SEARCH FOR MY
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2. Sujata Bhatt's poem 'Search for My Tongue' is read out by different actors. I ask you, what would you do if you had two tongues in your mouth, and lost the first one, the mother tongue, and could not really know the other, the foreign tongue. If anyone knows of a good link for a poetry website, or has a copy of it that they could send me, I would really appreciate it! ( Log Out /  The poem shows how the native culture survives, at a deep level, and is able to overthrow in the end the invading culture. The poem ‘Search for my tongue’ was written in three stanzas. About “Search For My Tongue” What is the poem about? Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Comparing 'Search for my tongue' with 'Presents from my aunt in Pakistan' Search for my tongue and Presents from my aunt in Pakistan are two poems that explore In the first stanza the beautiful clothing and strong visual continue but this beauty also has a dangerous side because the bangles she receives snap and cut her giving a slight sense of confusion which builds up slowly throughout the poem. Search for poems and poets using the Poetry Search Engine. This poem actually appeared in Bhatt's first collection, Brunizem, which was published in 1988. Clearly this can be seen to refer to colonial powers and independence. 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