Presents from my aunts in Pakistan and search for my tongue
Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’ and ‘Search for my Tongue’ both show people thinking about their roots. ... ‘Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan’ and ‘ Search for my Tongue’ are similar poems. ... The character in the poem ‘Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’ expresses intense feelings of confusion about her ‘roots’ through the presents that her aunts have sent her. ... She does not feel that she belongs to England or Pakistan, instead she appears to be trapped in between them. ... At the beginning of the poem, the poet expresses her concern that the ‘foreign tongue’ is overtaking the ‘mother tongue’ and fears that she cannot use them both together. She begins to fear that she is losing her mother tongue, ‘your mother tongue would rot, rot and die in your mouth’. ... Once again, the image of the plant re-growing is used to show her mother tongue returning back to her and we feel a sense of relief. ... Furthermore, it is evident from the beginning that she is having a conversation with someone, ‘you ask me what I mean by saying I have lost my tongue’, thus this may also be used to reflect the colloquial tone used throughout the poem.