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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the main point of the poem?
Loss
Identity
Growth
Fear
- 2. Multiple Choice
one example of personification :
"it pushes the other tongue aside"
"it blossoms out of my mouth"
"rot and die in your mouth"
"i have lost my tongue"
- 3. Multiple Choice
one example of symbolism :
"the bud opens in my mouth"
"the foreign tongue"
"it ties the other tongue in knots"
"it blossoms out of my mouth"
- 4. Multiple Choice
what are the themes of this poem ?
Language and identity
Culture and loss
Race and roots
- 5. Multiple Choice
Summarize the poem :
The poet thought she lost her native language but in fact, she stated that she dreams with it and its coming back
When you grow older you lose your good habits
Her being afraid that she was losing her identity as an Indian. It comes from a time when she was in America studying English, and feared she was forgetting her first language.
forgetting how to speak her mother tongue because she always had to speak English
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