A different History

Question 1

Summarise

Answer 1

Affects of colonisation/globalisation. A change in how society thinks, how to preserve it. Loss of culture that comes with globalisation, loss of part of our history rejecting the teachings of the old culture/heritage. Post colonial poem

Question 2

Meaning:

Answer 2

The loss of Culture/History through Colonialisation/ Globalisation and how we should preserve it.

Question 3

The Title

Answer 3

Title, idea of culture, the history of country/religion dictating the culture that it has. Stories influence culture, as stories of past, ‘History’ has identity for the country/religion, India, Hinduism. Bhatt’s idea she can rewrite history, purpose?

Question 4

First Stanza: Before Colon

Answer 4

‘Great Pan is…’. Understand is about a God, ‘Great Pan’, Greek God of Nature, free. Idea reinforced by ‘The gods…’ suggests that India free but Colon… of India changed it, but old History/Culture was free, main idea, that colon.. prevent countries from freedom, forgetting culture

Question 5

Second Stanza Colon occurred

Answer 5

Colon.. occurred, breed of people new dialect, forgotten old ‘strange language’ past. Loss of language angry, direct address, elders of ‘the unborn…’ to prove to retain language/culture of past, rewrite history. Contradiction poem in English criticise culture becoming English, people forget heritage/culture, the poet would write, dialect of past.

Question 6

Books

Answer 6

Sinful to damage books. Her old Culture, brought up to respect books, sacred, her own culture.

Question 7

‘Which Language truly meant to murder someone’

Answer 7

Perhaps, colon… killed culture/history by forgetting past language/culture/heritage through colon…