Moving Between Different Cultures in Poetry Essay -- Half Caste Search

Moving Between Different Cultures in PoetryFor my essay I will be looking at two poems which deal with theexperience of moving between different cultures, these are Half-Casteand Search for My Tongue. These poems are written from experience.John Agard the causation of Half-Caste was born in Gugana and locomote toBritain in 1977. He is half-caste himself and his poem expresses hisfeelings about the term half-caste.Sujata Bhatt the authoress of Search for My Tongue was born in Indiain 1956, her family moved to the United States of America in the1960s and she promptly lives in Germany. In her poem Search for My Tongueshe explains how she feels about having two different languages herbirth language, Gujerati and her second language, German.Half-Caste and Search for My Tongue, create very vivid images, whichmakes it easier for the indorser to interpret and understand two thepoems and the authors opinion on the different cultures.Half- Caste creates many images, by using descriptive l anguage andhumour. It creates such images as a man, standing on leg and havinghalf mih ear beca enforce he is only half-caste so he only has half whata normal person would have but it also creates images about objectsmix a red an green is a half-caste canvas and even music mix ablack key wid a white key is a half-caste symphony. This helps the commentator to understand how the author is feeling about the termhalf-caste, and can also come to a conclusion about the termthemselves. All the imagery in this poem makes the reader think abouthow anybody who has ever been called half-caste feels.Search for My Tongue creates a very vivid image using very descriptivemetaphors, it grows back, a stump of a shoot, grows ... ...age which creates vividimages for the reader. Using gujerati in the middle of the poems essaysthat her mother tongue, her birth language, is still strong and attimes, even stronger then her second language.In conclusion both of these poems deal with the issues faced when moving between different cultures in their own ways. They both uselanguage and imagery to express their messages Half- Caste exploresthe way that we use the term half-caste in our vocabulary andexaggerates it. This is to a great effect as it makes the reader thinkmore about racial issues and the way that we treat pile fromdifferent cultures. Search for my Tongue deals with moving betweendifferent cultures by actually writing about the language barriers andlosing your identity. This is how we can link the poems together andshow how people move between different cultures.