Saturday, July 20, 2019
Unrelated Incidentsââ¬â¢ by Tom Leonard and Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt :: English Literature
What does the way a person speaks tell us about the person? ââ¬ËUnrelated Incidentsââ¬â¢ by Tom Leonard and ââ¬ËSearch for my Tongueââ¬â¢ by Sujata Bhatt are two poems that give people an incite into how a person is perceived by others, by the way that they speak. ââ¬ËUnrelated Incidentsââ¬â¢ is about how the BBC newsreaders all talking in Standard English and will not have a Scottish person reading the news because the viewers will not understand there accent, Tom Leonard views this as discrimination and shows his dislike to this attitude in his poem. ââ¬ËSearch for my Tongueââ¬â¢ is about Sujata Bhattââ¬â¢s personal experiences with learning another language and having to speak in a foreign tongue and forgetting about the mother tongue which is the original language. When Sujata thinks that she has finally lost her mother tongue she starts to hear it again in her dreams. The layout of the poem ââ¬ËUnrelated Incidentsââ¬â¢ is set out in an unusual way because of the poem talking about the BBC newsreaders. When the newsreaders reads out the news they read it off of autocue and this is how the poem is set out. When first looking at ââ¬ËUnrelated Incidentsââ¬â¢ it is difficult to read because of the spellings of the words. The poem is written phonetically and not in Standard English. Tom Leonard says in line 27-30 ââ¬Ëthis is me token yir right way a spellin.ââ¬â¢ Leonard also uses colloquial which is slang he uses it in the last line with ââ¬Ëbelt upââ¬â¢ he does this to mock the way the news is read because of the poem being written as if it were the six clock news. This is different to ââ¬ËSearch for my Tongueââ¬â¢ because Sujata Bhatt for 15 lines writes in English but then from line 16-29 writes in Gujarati which is her mother language, beneath this it also tells the reader how to read this language (which is spelt phonetically). The lines written in Gujarati is actually the first part of the poem written again and when you read it the first part sounds harsh and not very nice to read but when you read it for a second time in Gujarati it flows and is nice to read. In ââ¬ËUnrelated Incidentsââ¬â¢ and ââ¬ËSearch for my Tongueââ¬â¢ they either are cross or upset with themselves or with others around them. In the poem ââ¬ËUnrelated Incidentsââ¬â¢ the Scottish man is angry for being rejected by the BBC just because of the way that he talks and because of his accent and in ââ¬ËSearch for my Tongueââ¬â¢ she is upset with herself for not
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