Search For My Tongue

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Poetry Comentary The poem I chose is called “Search For My Tongue” and the poet’s name is Sujata Bhatt. It is not divided into stanzas, it is a free style poem and does not have many rhymes. It is about a person who has to talk in another language that is not his first. The voice of the poem keeps in a conflict with himself about talking his mother tongue or English. He says that his mother tongue keeps trying to spit out of his mouth, but he can’t speak it because he needs to speak English for people’s understanding. In the first lines, the poet provokes the reader’s curiosity by asking what the reader would do if he had to speak in a language that it was not his mother tongue. Still on the beginning, the voice of the poem also tells his feelings about talking English, how his first language wants to spit out of his mouth and how messy this confusion of languages can get into his mouth and head. He describes in a odd way this confusion inside his head, saying things such as having two tongues into his mouth and how his mother tongue would “rot” if he did not speaks his own language for a long time. Soon after saying this, he starts to talk in his own language and then in the end, in a strange way, he describes how his first tongue “ressurects” and takes the place of the other tongue everytime he thinks he has forgotten how to speak his own language. In my point of view, I think that the voice of the poem wants to show how is difficult to get used with another culture and mainly with another language. He show his feelings very clearly and I think the way he does this, makes me and the other readers feel as bad as him in this new situation. When he says that his tongue “grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins” it really makes me thought about the image of the tongue growing inside of his mouth. I think he succeded in communicate the strangeness of being
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