Poet's Feelings in Search for My Tongue

Poet's Feelings in Search for My Tongue

We can contract many details about a persons character and personality

simply from the way in which they speak.

Firstly, we get an idea of which country they come from and their

background by analyzing their accent, we can also decide upon exactly

which particular region in that country they live in. For example:

Yorkshire accents and Liverpool accents are extremely easy to tell

apart.

Secondly, we can judge their level of sincerity and seriousness from

the tone of their voice, which they are using.

Thus, if a certain person were being sarcastic they would be speaking

in a scornful and mocking tone whereas if they were being meaningful

and speaking from their heart they would speak in a more serious tone.

In a large amount of cases, we can also try and recognize a persons'

level of intelligence and intellect from their use of words, the

reason for that is if a person isn't greatly clever they may speak

monosyllabically whereas if they are clever they will probably use a

wide range of vocabulary and expressions whilst they are speaking.

Finally, We can make a judgement of which class the person is in by

listening to their accent because if the person is articulate and has

a posh accent it may suggest that they are wealthy or were brought up

in an upper-class background and have a well-paid job whereas if they

are not well spoken it may suggest that they are from a lower-class

background and have a badly-paid job.

The poem 'search for my tongue' was written by an Indian woman named

Sujata Bhatt, she wrote the poem while she was studying English at

university in America and began to be afraid that she might forget her

original language (Gujarati), the poem explains what it is like to try

to think and speak in two languages and the difficulties she has.

I think Sujata Bhatt feels as though her voice signifies who she is

and her background which is why she seems enormously worried about