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

Moving Between Different Cultures in meterFor my essay I will be looking at dickens poems which deal with theexperience of touching amidst different cultures, these are Half- circleand attempt for My patois. These poems are written from experience.John Agard the author of Half-Caste was born in Gugana and go toBritain in 1977. He is half-caste himself and his poem expresses hisfeelings intimately 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 now lives in Germany. In her poem Search for My Tongueshe explains how she feels close to having two different terminologys herbirth spoken language, Gujerati and her second language, German.Half-Caste and Search for My Tongue, create truly burnished images, whichmakes it easier for the reader to interpret and understand both thepoems and the authors opinion on the different cultures.Half- Caste creates many images, by using descriptive language andhumour. It creates such images as a man, standing on leg and havinghalf mih ear because he is only half-caste so he only has half whata normal person would rush but it also creates images or so objectsmix a red an green is a half-caste canvas and even music mix ablack key wid a exsanguine key is a half-caste symphony. This helps thereader to understand how the author is feeling about the termhalf-caste, and can also come to a completion about the termthemselves. All the imagery in this poem makes the reader ring 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 showsthat her mother tongue, her birth language, is inactive strong and attimes, even stronger then her second language.In conclusion both of these poems deal wit h the issues faced whenmoving 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 capacious effect as it makes the reader thinkmore about racial issues and the way that we treat people 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.