search for my tongue Flashcards
what is happening in the poem
A person who can speak to language can never fully forget her mother togue and were she originally came from
message of the poem
you can never fully forget your roots and for where she originally came from
What happens to the language in the middle of the poem
It switches to her mother tongue
word ‘searching’ in the title
The speaker feels that she has lost her mother tongue and she can’t remember the language
meaning of the word ‘tongue’
- it’s the first ever language she learnt
2.also could be that she is searching her memory and she has forgotten
the word ‘mother’ suggests
It suggests that it is her first language
word ‘foreign’
suggest that it’s not her fist language and that she isn’t fully comfortable with it.
quotes to show the conflict between the two tongues
- ’ it pushes the other tongue aside’
- ’ you could not use them both together’
- It’s hard to have both languages simultaneously in her mind and she struggles to use both at once.
‘mother tongue would rot’ - ‘blossom’
shows that you can not forget where you came from as it is a part of who you are
language comes back in sleep. what does this show
it shows that Bhatt wants people remember who they are and realise that no matter what subconsciously it will always be apart of you.
what does the Romanized stanza show?
That to other people the language will sound different and unfamiliar
Mix of end stops and enjambement shows ?
It shows that she is not fully confident in her abilities to speak in another language
