What does the way a person speaks tell us about the person? ‘Unrelated Incidents’ by Tom Leonard and ‘Search for my Tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt are two poems that give people an incite into how a person is perceived by others, by the way that they speak. ‘Unrelated Incidents’ is about how the BBC newsreaders all talking in Standard English and will not have a Scottish person reading the news because the viewers will not understand there accent, Tom Leonard views this as discrimination and shows
Interview of Harita Bhatt (Indian Migrant’s Experience – India to the US) Harita Bhatt migrated to the US a decade ago from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She has received high-quality training to operate within the framework of the banking sector as a competent Investment Banking Consultant (IBC), yet was experiencing considerable difficulties discovering sufficient work in order to assist her family members and articulated that she initially did not earn adequate wages when she got employed. Harita
beginning and of the poem in English but the middle is made up of Gujerati. Even though we cannot tell what the writing means it doesn’t matter because we still get the same effect from it, the almost angriness and distress from the poet, Sujata Bhatt . The other poem “Presents” uses visual items like clothes to show the difference in cultures: “my costume clung to me I was aflame.” Moniza Alvi sees her Pakistani clothes as a “costume” rather than normal clothes. She calls it this because they
A Comparison of Sonnet 17 by William Shakespeare And The Writer by Sujata Bhatt 'Sonnet 17' and 'The Writer' deal with the issues of the difficulties of describing nature and a woman on paper and the frustration of not being able to write. Having reading both titles one would get the impression of 'Sonnet 17' being a love poem, (as a sonnet is a traditional love poem),that it concerns the issues of beauty and time. '17' illustrates the number of the poem, showing the poet has written quite
The poem A Different History was written by Sujata Bhatt, and is about how the culture, language and identities of the colonisers have affected India’s values, culture, religion and spirituality. The first stanza focuses on respect for religion and education, and on India’s culture, whereas the second stanza emphasises how the language and the colonisers destroy this culture and values. This poem also focuses on the fact that language plays a crucial part in establishing national identity, linking
With close reference Search for my tongue written by Sujata Bhatt, and Still I rise by Maya Angelou both explore the effective With close reference “Search for my tongue” written by Sujata Bhatt, and “Still I rise” by Maya Angelou both explore the effectiveness of their celebration of culture and traditions. The two poems are about both poets reflecting upon how important it is to keep in touch with cultures and traditions, to be proud of who you are and where you come from. “Still
A Comparison of ‘Search for my Tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt and ‘Ogun’ by Edward Kamau When making a comparison between the two poems, ‘Search For My Tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt and ‘Ogun’ by Edward Kamau Brathwaite we can see that both are primarily concerned with notions of culture and identity and in particular how one impacts upon the other. The implication being, that the culture into which we are born plays an important role in the formation of our identity and that when we attempt to integrate
A Comparison of Two Poems Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi and Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt In this essay, I will be showing you how the writers use their own poetic devices within their work to their advantage and how the poets have used different themes to overcome in their own poems. To begin this essay, I will be presenting to you how Alvi and Bhatt have used different viewpoints within their poems to put across their message to the reader. In the poem 'Presents
Search For My Tongue by Sujata Bhatt, Hurricane Hits England by Grace Nichols and Presents from Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alzi 'Search For My Tongue', by Sujata Bhatt is a forceful poem describing her experience of being caught between two cultures. This poem expresses how she feels that she has lost her mother tongue while speaking the foreign language within which she now lives, but in her dreams it grows back. Similarly, 'Hurricane Hits England', by Grace Nichols describes how she felt
published on their website on February 4th. The title of the article is “Dear Coldplay & Beyonce: India is Not an Orientalist Fantasy by Reva Bhatt. The controversy is around a music video that Coldplay, a British alternative rock band, released for one of their newer songs named Hymn for the Weekend featuring Beyonce. The music video takes place in India and Bhatt was not happy about how Indian is portrayed by Coldplay in their video. She claims that the video takes the complexity and vastness of Indian
that there are four main stages of radicalization. The four stages are the pre-radicalization, the self-identification, indoctrination, and Jihadization (Silber and Bhatt, 2007). The first stage is the pre-radicalization. This is the point of origin investigators go back to when research is conducted on the individual (Silber and Bhatt, 2007). Most individuals start out as normal and ordinary. These people live normal lives and usually lack or have little criminal backgrounds. These individuals are
Search For My Tongue by Sujata Bhatt The Context Of The Poem Sujata Bhatt was born in the Indian state of Gujarat where her mother tongue was Gujarati. Later she moved onto United States where she learnt English. In and interview, she says " I have always thought of myself as an Indian who is outside India". Her mother tongue is for her and important link to her family and to her childhood. " That's the deepest layer of my identity". What Is The Poem About
but what does it actually mean? In this essay I will compare two poems from completely different cultures to see if we get any comparisons, the poems I have chosen to write about are Half-Caste by John Agard and Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt, I have chosen these because I feel they raise some very significant points. But back to the question mentioned earlier, what is culture? Everyone has a different view on culture, but to me it is a huge influence on our everyday lives, many different
Explore the ways in which two or three of these poems present the experience of living between two cultures and the difficulties it causes. The two poems I am choosing are "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" and "Search for My Tongue". "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" is written by Moniza Alvi, a woman who was born in Pakistan but moved to England at an early age. Her mother was from England and white, her Father was Pakistani and so black. This makes Moniza 'half-caste', as well
By definition, credibility refers to the believability of the celebrity endorser (Bhatt, Jayswal, & Patel, 2013). This source credibility model suggests that the effectiveness of celebrity endorsement is attributed to the perceived expertise and trustworthiness conveyed by the celebrity endorser (i.e. source) (Hovland et al., 1953). Kelamn
another culture. There is a suggestion that some people would not be allowed to speak their own language, that a foreign language has been imposed. 'If you lived in a place you had to speak a foreign tongue'. The choice of words Sujata Bhatt uses makes the original language sound like something disgusting like phlegm, 'You had to spit it out'. This may suggest the foreigners saw the way the original language as something inferior to their own language. The two languages are imagined
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
may view people as down on their luck and in economic strife. However, in actuality, both groups according to Dawson (2010) come from middle class families and have obtained some education and seem unremarkable, just as asserted in the Silber and Bhatt (2007) study. With this sense of deprivation, Dawson points out seeking individuals in both NRM and radical Islamic groups may want to pursue an identity which is influenced by socialization with other people going through the same situation or who
suicide. There are many factors that play a part in someone committing suicide and it is difficult to say whether these are the reasons. Durkheim did, however help in identifying some of the tell-tale signs for someone who is suicidal. Works Cited Bhatt, A. (n.d.). What are the types of suicide given by Durkheim? PreserveArticles.com. Parker-Pope, T. (2013). Suicide Rates Rise Sharply in U.S. New York: TheNewYorkTimes.com. Rettner, R. (2013). Suicide rates spike among middle-aged US adults. FoxNews
2.4.1 Magnesium Properties Figure 2.7 shows the properties of magnesium based on physical, mechanical and chemical properties. Magnesium element is strong, ductile and light- weight metal. It is malleable when heated and react slowly in cold water. The chemical properties are it is highly flammable metal and high chemical reactivity (Boccaccini & Gough, 2007). Figure 2.7: The characteristic of magnesium Table 2.4: Physical properties of pure magnesium (International Magnesium Association, 1943)