Search For My Tongue analysis

Search For My Tongue analysis

1Search For My TongueBy Sujata BhattTeachable.net 2009. Some rights reserved.
http://teachable.net/res.asp?r=2722 2ContextSujata Bhatt moved from India to the USA as a young child.
This may be an autobiographical poem describing the problems she encountered having to use a different language in this poem tongue means language.
However it could also have a wider message concerning culture rather than just language. 3Section 1You ask me what I mean
by saying I have lost my tongue.
I ask you what would you do
if you had two tongues in your mouth
and lost the first one the mother tongue
and could not really know the other
the foreign tongue.
You could not use them both together
even if you thought that way.
And if you lived in a place you had to
speak a foreign tongue
your mother tongue would rot
rot and die in your mouth
until you had to spit it out.
I thought I spit it out
but overnight while I dream