Search for my tongue
Hello readers!
Here I would wrote to blog about the famous poem search for my tongue by Indian poet sujata bhatt. Her poem search for my tongue was widely praise by critics and she received a cholmondelay award in 1991 and the Italian tratti poetry prize in 2005.
Sujata Bhatt was born in 1956 Ahmedabad, Gujarat and brought up in pune until 1968,when she emigrated to United States with her family. She received the commonwealth poetry, prize and the Alicehunt Barttett prize for her first collection of poems “ Brunizem" in 1987.she news lives in Bremen Germany with her husband the German writer. She is visiting proffesor in creative writing at nothing huntrant University.
Search for my tongue is a work that describes the struggle of person embracing a new culture and ' tongue' the poet depicts the situation in ways that express her desperation to hood that ' mother tongue'. The final thoughts of the poem indicat her fears of losing it are unfounded as in will always to her an even graw.
Sujata Bhatt's multicultural perspective on language, culture, art and history surely originate in her own life expiriance. The poet asks the questions that what does it means when you say and ask me.
" I have lost my tongue "
The question then she wants to ask is " what would you do it you had two tongues in your head and than you lost one of them". The lost tongue is the mother tongues. And the speaks has left the mother tongue and she could not really know the other language that is the foriegn tongue.
The speaks then continues to suggest that
"you would not use them both together
And the foreign tongue".
This line is what our speaker tongue happened to her until she had a dream and than the poem takes a different angle and a different furn, where the speaker in the middle part of the poem present her Gujarati writing.
This idea of a mother tongue representing an entire language is a fency metaphor could "metonily" this comparison compares the speakers tongue to a plant that grows back after being cut down because they are vcains that is our speakers mother tongue.
" It blossoms out of her mouth".
This last Image shows the joy and peace of being able to speak in once own language that is the first - language. The mother tongue.
Conclusion
So hear poet 's first and native language comes alive inside her, pushing aside the foreign language that she can't ever really know compared to her mother tongue. The poet concludes the poem by stating that whenever she thinks she has forgotten, she has lost the mother tongue.
Thank you...
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