Search for my tounge

Question 1

You ask me what I mean

Answer 1

Direct address, effect of beginning in middle of conversation- person being addressed doesn’t understand what it is to like to loose mother tongue

Question 2

Tongue

Answer 2

Metaphor for native language

Question 3

Lines 3 and 5

Answer 3

Confronting

Question 4

Spit

Answer 4

Repeated, disgust, more angry as she has no choice but to reject her mother tongue as her second language is more palatable. Shows her anger and regret to having to do this in order to fit new culture.

Question 5

Rot

Answer 5

Gross disgust, you don’t want to have rotting thing in mouth, her mother tongue fading away and diving.

Question 6

Bhatts showing language

Answer 6

The beauty of her language and what’s to see line in bilingual

Question 7

Grows

Answer 7

Repetition and caesura emphasises slow, incremental return of mother tongue.

Question 8

Ties

Answer 8

Verb choice, shows how forcibly the mother language is returning, will not be repressed.

Question 9

Opens

Answer 9

Repetition, symbolises opening of her mother tongue in her mouth.

Question 10

Blossoms

Answer 10

Positive image, she feels language growing again and return. Optimistic about her mother tongue returning to her.

Question 11

Free verse

Answer 11

Certain words in her native language, she feels her identity constantly changes, she’s unconstitutionally and free to speak both languages because both part of her cultural identity