Review of Presents From my Aunts in Pakistan

Review of Presents From my Aunts in Pakistan

The subject of the poem "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" is that,

a girl who was born in Pakistan and who has been growing up in England

in an English way of life. One day when she was aware that she is

going to get some gifts from her beloved aunts living in Pakistan she

expected to get some ordinary western style of clothes I.e. denim and

corduroy, but unfortunately she received some Pakistani styled clothes

I.e. salwar kameez, Indian jewellery and sarees. So, this poem totally

describes how she reacted and felt towards the incident happened.

The purpose of the poem "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" is that

the girl who has been described in the poem has been born in Pakistan

and brought up in England in the English way of life and in parallel

to their style of living. And when she received some gifts from

Pakistan in Pakistani style she feels that these things are so far to

be worn in England because it's so far from the English's style of

living in comparison with the Pakistani's style of living. And when

she tried to wear that on in her English styled bedroom she felt like

as though there has been an alien in her room. So, the purpose is that

how she feels different and as an alien from the gifts received.

The emotions of this poem are feeling alienation, different, feeling

embarrassment, disappointment and love and happiness. The craft of

this poem are as follows Line number eighteen says "I could never be

lovely as those clothes". This line prove how much she likes the

clothes sent from her aunts in Pakistan and she also proves the

happiness she felt from sending her beautiful clothes from her aunts

in Pakistan although she was not in the position to wear them on. In

line number twenty "I longed for denim and corduroy". From these two

lines I have mentioned, I can prove that she liked the gifts sent from

her aunts in Pakistan but she not in a country where it would be