In "Search for my Tongue" and "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan", the poets are conveying to the reader the strong feelings they have about their roots, and how it affects them in everyday life.

Both poems talk of women who have Asian roots, but are now living in other countries.

In Search for my Tongue the poet tries to express to the reader, how very strange it feels to have been brought up with one language, and to have to give it up to make space for a new language.

Her language is something very important to her, it isn't just a language but it also represents her culture and identity.

The poet feels that, because, she has had to speak this new language, and live a new way of life, that she is losing her native language, culture and identity.

The poet conveys her feelings by using strong images that show exactly how she feels.

'And if you lived in a place you had to speak a foreign tongue,

>From this stanza you can really picture the native, unused tongue, rotting, a

However when she puts on the clothes, she doesn't feel right, as if they do not belong to her, she feels that she will never fit into the clothes, never fit back into Pakistan because she is half English.

"But often I admired the mirror work,

In the middle of the poem the poet writes in Gujarati, her native language, this shows that the mother tongue is not dead, but so very alive.

It is very important that the girl is surrounded by clothes and other objects from her homeland, like a camel skin lamp and old photographs, as she was very young when she left Pakistan and these items help her to feel some attachment to her roots.

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Approximate Word count = 1004
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)