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In the poem ‘Search for my Tongue’ , Sujata Bhatt makes the poem about her life living in the U.S and how she immigated from an Indian girl to a person living in the U.S. she had been speaking Gujarati in India and now she has to learn a new language due to the language barrier that existed, she has written the poem to show the struggles she has faced in order to get into the society.  she’s living in right now. The poem is mainly focused on how her language has come and arrived in her dream and the dream is all on Gujarati. In the poem she becomes glad that she’s bilingual. 

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The poem ‘Search for My Tongue’ is written by Sujata Bhatt.The purpose of the poem is to convey how it is to live in a foreign country and get forced to be disconnected from your cultural background. Bhatt explores the idea of not being able to communicate in her new country due to the language barrier which inspired her to write this poem. This poem is about Sujata Bhatt illustrating how important Gujarati language is to her and that she has lost an important part of herself,her mother tongue. Sujata Bhatt is an Indian poet, a native speaker of Gujarati who was forced to emigrate to the U.S.

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Sujata Bhatt is an Indian poet who used to live in Gujarat, but later moved to the United States of America. There she was forced to learn the English language from scratch while only being fluent in Gujarati and having nobody know the language that she knows.Hence, Bhatt wrote this poem to express the hardships she faced while trying to learn English, but to show the beauty of her own language and being bilingual finally.

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In the poem ‘Search for my Tongue’ , Sujata Bhatt makes the poem about her life living in the U.S and how she immigated from an Indian girl to a person living in the U.S. she had been speaking Gujarati in India and now she has to learn a new language due to the language barrier that existed, she has written the poem to show the struggles she has faced in order to get into the society. she’s living in right now. The poem is mainly focused on how her language has come and arrived in her dream and the dream is all on Gujarati. In the poem she becomes glad that she’s bilingual.

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In this poem ‘Search for my Tongue’, Sujata Bhatt, the poet, explores the themes of isolation, culture, identity, language, race, confusion, loss (of heritage, culture & identity) , growth, reproduction & rebirth; in the search for her potentially lost mother tongue, which she later discoveres that is still engraved within her. She also informs the readerof the difficulty of being forced to learn a new language which doesn’t mean anything to her, which also forces her to believe that she had lost her original language

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In the poem 'Search for my Tongue' created by Sujata Bhatt, the poet explores the theme of death. In addition, she also explores the ideas of identity loss and the rebirth of how she obtained it back.Firstly, Bhatt uses the quote 'I lost my tongue' in the first section of her poem to portray the theme that influences the reader to feel isolated. Furthermore she sustains the fact that not knowing your mother language creates a barrier between Bhatt and her identity which represents her personality. In addition, as the poem continues in the second section Bhatt writes fluently in her mother tongue (Gujarati) to convey the fact that Gujarati is as the heart of the two languages that she is fluent in. She thinks that she lost her mother tongue when she was forced to migrate to the U.S.A.

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The poet Sujata Bhatt created a poem Called “Search for My Tounge” . This poem explores her backstory on how she had to speak a foreign language because no one else could speak her mother tounge, and as time goes by, she slowly loses her identity/culture because she cannot relate or talk to anyone in her language, making her feel isolated and forced to learn a language so that she can communicate. This poem is to make the readers understand her situation and what she had to go through to learn a language that she had never heard of before moving to the U.S .

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In the poem ‘Search for my tongue’ written by Sujata Bhatt, she expresses her feelings and frustration towards losing her mother tongue,but she regains it back. The poet was forced to move to the USA which made her lose her identity and culture.The poet felt lonely and isolated when she moved away from her home country.Bhatt explores the topics of growth and rebirth in the poem. Sujata Bhatt wrote this poem to celebrate the fact that she’s bilingual and to show all the hard times she’s been through.

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Throughout the poem “Search for my Tongue” Sujata Bhatt writes about the feeling of losing her mother tongue and then how she regains it back.
The purpose of the poem was to reveal the feeling of losing her mother tongue (which is the feeling of being lost and isolated; this is due to the mother tongue representing her culture and heritage, as later on when she loses her mother tongue she feels alone/isloated). The poet (Bhatt) was inspired to write the poem when she left her country and arrived to the United States where she wasto learn the language called English, Eventually when she learnt English she started to feel like she is losing her mother tongue since does not use her mother tongue but rather speaks English in the United States. The poet explains the theme of isolation, death, and identity. The poem included a section which was in Gujarati which meant to make Non-Gujarati speakers feel deserted as they wouldn’t understand the section. (Link to the question).

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The poem ‘Search for my Tongue’, Sujata Bhatt is inspired to write this maginificent poem by her history and how she had to move from India, where she was fluent with, and go to America and had to learn a foreign tongue. This poem explores how Sujata Bhatt moves to forgein country and had to learn a forgien language; slowly thinking that she is losing her mother Tongue, however she dreams with that language and to dream in a language means it’s your most fluent language. The message Bhatt gives with this poem is that losing your mother tongue is like losing your identity, but, even if you think you lost it, it will always come back. (Link to the question).

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In the poem ‘Search for my Tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt, Bhatt explains her frustration when moving to the USA by talking about her loss of identity. In this poem she talks about her mother tongue, Gujarati, and how it was pushed away when moving countries. Bhatt wrote this poem to celebrate the fact that she is bilingual and to show what struggles she had to go through to find the thing that is most important to her, her identity.

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In the poem ‘Search for My Tounge’ by Sujata Bhatt, the poet talks about the loss of her mother tounge (Gujarati). She thinks she has lost it because she was forced to leave her home country to the United States, and has forgotten the Gujarati language, but overnight as Bhatt dreams, Bhatt realizes that she dreams in Gujarati. The poet felt isolated and lonely because when she first arrived in the USA, she couldn’t speak the English language. The theme that runs through the poem is identity:the message that she is trying to illustrate is that the mother tounge represents who she is.

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In the poem 'Search for my Tongue', Sujata Bhatt talks about how after she moves from her home country she was forced to lose her mother tongue and replace it with English. Bhatt was inspired to write this poem because of her history of moving countries and represents the theme of loss of identity. The message that Bhatt was trying to portray was that your mother tongue is always the most important language and even if you think you have lost it, it will always come back to you. She also shows the theme of isolation as when she was forced to go to the US she felt lonely and unbelonged as her language was separating her from everyone else.

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This Poem “Search for my tongue” is written by Sujaa Bhatt. It’s about her being afraid that she was losing her identity as a Gujarati - speaking Indian. It comes from a time when she was in America and was forced to speak a foreign language ,which annoys and irritates her. So, she feared that she was forgetting her first language (her mother tongue). Furthermore, the purpose of the poem is to make the reader abide with her and the struggles she’s facing.

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In the poem ‘Search for my Tongue’ the poet Sujata Bhatt talks about a variety of themes. How her life went on and her languages including her origin language and her foreign language. The poem is written in two different languages which are English and Gujarati. The poet’s message is that people shouldn’t forget their languages because it would a horrible experience when they lose it.

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The poem “Search for my Tongue” written by Sujata Bhatt is about the struggles of being bilingual. Bhatt was born and raised in India and was fluent in Gujarati, she then moved to the U.S. and was forced to learn a foreign language. The poem is about her thinking she lost her mother tongue (Gujarati), Bhatt then realizes after dreaming that she didn’t lose it. Throughout the whole poem, there is a re-occurring theme of isolation.

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In the poem ‘Search for my Tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt, the theme of loss of identity is explored throughout the poem as she talks about the struggles of being bilingual and how she loses her mother tongue, heritage and a huge part of her individuality but is reunited with it again. Bhatt used to live in India and was a native speaker of Gujarati. However, she had to move to the USA and learn to forget her mother tongue in order to make room for the foreign language. This intriguing anecdote inspired her to write the poem to share with the world as a relatable experience for many bilingual people.

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The poem ‘Search for my Tongue’ by poet Sujata Bhatt, is inspired by her struggle to find her mother tongue, and how she feels like she has lost it. She is from Gujarat, India and moved to the U.S. She was forced to learn a foreign language because of the language barrier in the U.S. The poem was written to show the reader how isolated she was, and wants the reader to empathise with her as she writes in her mother tongue, Gujarati, and the foreign tongue she was forced to learn, English. The theme of the poem is the poet’s loss of culture,heritage and identity.

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In the poem “Search for my Tongue” by Sujata Bhatt the idea of being bilingual is expressed in a manner that shows her struggles at arriving in a new country and learning its language. Whilst learning the new language, she starts to forget her mother tongue which brings her sorrow. Although, later she dreams in her mother tongue which gives her hope and positivity in realising that she has not forgetten her origins and her identity.