Poetry Analysis of Limbo, Blessing and Half Caste I have chosen four different poems of which come from varying cultural backgrounds and have a moral. I will now explain how the writers present their ideas and give the readers an insight into different cultures. Limbo is a poem, which shows us the feelings of slaves on slave ships written by Edward Kamau. This poem tells the story of slavery in a rhyming, rhythmic dance. It is ambitious and complex. There are two…

Lilly Bjorkquist The Story of My Search It’s no secret that the economy has not been the best in the past five or so years, and a lot of schools have taken the hardest hit from that. Public schools have had to cut many different programs and areas of study because it is simply just too expensive to teach all of them and provide the correct materials for the students. This is causing the quality of students education to go down, and they aren’t receiving all of the benefits that they should be…

Different Cultures Presented in Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan and Search For My Tongue For my essay I am going to compare 'Search For My Tongue' by Sujata Bhatt and 'Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan' by Moniza Alvi. 'Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan' is autobiographical. It is set in England where the author talks about and describes the presents that she receives from her Aunts who live in Pakistan. 'Search for my Tongue' is written while living in Germany but during…

Story of My Search A person’s name is the one thing that cannot be taken away from him or her. It is the only thing that stays with us from the day we are born until the day we take our last breath. Emily Annabelle Pierce is the name given to me by my parents. I did not choose this name or change it in any way. My parents named me this before they knew me, but my names parallel a lot with my character. Before my teacher assigned this project, I knew little about my name. I knew that my parents named…

The Story of My Search When I first got this assignment, I was not sure about what my topic was going to be. I had never done this type of assignment before, and I went back and forth on good topic ideas. I changed the topic of my paper a couple of times before I finally decided on what I wanted this paper to be about. I decided to do my I-search paper on Elizabeth Blackwell. When I was younger, I was assigned a book report that had to be done on a biography. I did my report on Elizabeth Blackwell…

Comparative essay between two poems namely, Half - Caste by John Agard and Unrelated Incidents by Tom Leonard. John Agard and Unrelated Incidents by Tom Leonard. You can clearly see before you begin to read these poems that they are set out differently to your average poem. For example in Unrelated Incidents that there are no more than four words per poem. The punctuation in Unrelated Incidents is based on the phanetic way of spelling, this means that you spell the way speak and pronounce…

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 personal essay “My Mothers Tongue” (1990), Amy Tan, widely known author explains her insights on language and culture identity using details and memories from her own life experiences. Tan conceals that the language in which her mother used with her “was the language that helped shape the way [she] saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world” (1208) and in the process it made her who she is today as an author. Tan illuminates the euro centricity of the Master Narrative by retelling…

My eyes search for anything that will not judge me, my hands begin shaking anticipating the moment I get to sit back down, my heart is beating so fast, too fast, I can’t breathe, I can’t speak. This moment lasts too long, I can’t do this, I am so cold yet so very hot, why can’t this be over? Their eyes are searching mine for my response, but I can’t think. I can imagine all the things that they must be saying in their heads. I need to say something to make all this stop. “I don’t know” I manage…

Comparing poems from different cultures. Many poems deal with the theme of cultural identity. I have chosen three to compare, they are: Search For My Tongue, by Sujata Bhatt Half-Caste, by John Agard and Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan, by Moniza Alvi. I chose these three poems because I feel that they all deal with different aspects of cultural identity. For example Search for my tongue covers the aspect of losing your native tongue and using a ‘foreign’ language, Half-Caste…