Paper 7
Transcript of Paper 7
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Search for My Tongue-An Experiment. A New for Originates
Name-Vaghani Hitesh s. Roll No.20 M.A-I SEM-2 Department of English Bhavnagar University
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What Kind of poem is it ? Identity is important in the poem as her fears of losing her fist language are about a key part of what makes her who she is.
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Structure * The poem is written in three section: The poet expresses how hard is it for her to know two language, but neglect the one she feels most belongs to her. *Showing that although her ‘mother tongue’ dies during the day, it ‘grows back’ in her dreams at night, becoming strong and producing ‘blossoms’.
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Language
How many meanings does the word ‘tongue’ have in the poem? It is a part of the body- the part you speak with.It has also come to mean the language that you speak. The phrase ‘lost my tongue’ is used in a colloquial sense to mean that someone is tongue-tied and does not know what to say.
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Poetics techniques Repetition of certain words such as ‘tongue’, ‘grows’, bud’ and ‘mouth’ works powerfully to emphasize the ideas of the poem: “It grows back, a stump of a shoot grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins…”
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Using Gujarati in the poem Using Gujarati
shows in the action the two language operating in the narrator’s life and therefore makes a powerful point in
the poem. The Gujarati is positioned at the core of the poem with English
either side of it.
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