search for my tongue

What language besides English does she use in the poem?

• English

• Gujarati

• German

• Indonesian

What is the main theme for the poem?

• Worrying about losing part of herself

• Her being nostalgic

• Her tongue

• Resenting society

How does she feel?

• Happy

• Mourning

• Oppressed

• Overjoyed

What word does she use to show she is oppressed?

• 'your mother tongue would rot and die in your mouth.'

• 'spit it out'

• 'It ties the other tongue in knots'

• 'I have lost my tongue'

who is the writer?

• Suhata Bhitt

• Bujata Shatt

• Sujata Bhatt

• Jk Rowling

what is a key theme in this poem?

• Loss

• Identity

• REmemberance

• Hope

what is the meaning behind the title of the poem

• the language we speak is linked to our culture

• the poet has lost her tongue

• the author is forgetting her native language

• the poet is on a quest to find something

what does 'your mother tongue would rot'

• the poet is losing the ability to speak her language

• it is difficult to speak two languages

• the poet is losing her culture

• the poet wants to lose her native language

what does 'the bud opens in my mouth' mean

• her mother tongue is coming back

• her mother tongue is lost

• the poet has a sense of rebirth and her mother tongue is more powerful

• her mother tongue has been destroyed