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Presents from my aunt in pakistan

            In "Presents From My Aunt In Pakistan"the poet looks at the issue of two cultures clashing from the point of view of a person with no fixed nationality.Monica Alvi comes from an Asian background but also comes from England.The arrival of the presents have several effects on her:making her think of her aunts and her past;it also makes her think of where she belongs.
             The shape of the poem reflects the conflicting thought in the poets head.In the first stanza the poet describe the beautiful clothes she has received. However,elsewhere in the poem she shows the bad things that have happened in Pakistan "from camel to shade".The lineation of the poem shows that she is confused the lines are not in a fixed so the poet can break a line to create emphasis.
             The poet relays the sense of confusion by these presents,she describes how confuse she feels for example " I was aflame".The description is effective because she is trying to say that is inside a fire she doesn't know what to do or where she belongs.
             The poet feels that she doesn't belong to either Pakisstan or England.It is very difficult for her because she was born in Pakistan but then grew up in England and as result doesn't know the Pakistani culture.The poem made me think of where i belong my parents and i were born in Turkey and now I am living in England.
            


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1. presents from my aunt in pakis

Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan, but moved to England when she was five. ... IN this respect, the poem is like: Search for My Tongue; from Unrelated Incidents; Half-Caste; and Ogun. ... It is as if she is being burned and consumed by the Pakistani clothes, because she is "half-English, unlike Aunt Jamila." ... In the same stanza, she remarks that, although the aunts sent bright clothes from Pakistan, they wanted cardigans from Marks and Spencers. ... Lahore is where her aunts stay in secluded rooms away from male gaze. ...

  • Word Count: 1229
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Explore How The Poet Feels About Her Cultural Identity

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  • Word Count: 726
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3. Roots and Identity

In the poems "Ogun" by Edward Kamau Braithwaite, "Search For My Tongue" by Sujata Bhatt and "Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan" by Moniza Alvi, the writer shows his/her feelings regarding roots and identity. ... Search For My Tongue by Sujata Bhatt is about the ways in which she finds it difficult switching between two languages, Gujarati and English. ... Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan was written by Moniza Alvi about when she moved from Pakistan to England and how difficult it is to live where she lives and alike Search For My Tongue how Moniza has to search between two completely di...

  • Word Count: 980
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Nothings Changed

The three poems that I have chosen to analyse are half caste by John Agard, Nothings Changed by Takamkhula Afrika and Presents from my Aunt in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi. ... As a teenager he came to find out that his parents originated from Egypt and Turkey. ... The poem was wrote in 1991 just a year after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, a time when coloured people were meant to be treated equally to white people. ... The second part of the Stanza lists parts of his body things that are different from other people because of colour, "my feet know, and my hands and the skin about my bone...

  • Word Count: 1268
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