English Literature Poems :: English Literature

slope Literature PoemsCompare the methods that Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan employsto highlight the importance of heathen indistinguishability with another(prenominal) numbers?I have chosen to compare Presents and Hurricane as both verse formshighlight the importance of cultural identity in society. two poetsAlvi and Nicholas employ many different and similar methods toillustrate the importance of cultural identity.The poem Presents is about the generator herself at a younger datefeeling insecure as she is of dual heritage (mixed race) in my incline Grandmothers dining - room. In the poem the poet begins to divergence with herself as she believes that she is not of one set raceI was there of no fixed nationality. Throughout the poem the poetbegins to show her insecurity as she begins to respond to the presentsher aunties bought her from her native land negatively I could neverbe as lovely as those clothes. A t the end of the poem the Alvi isunable to resolve her problem as she finishes the poem feeling earlierdown saying I was there of no fixed nationality. The poemHurricane is rather similar in the way that it is againautobiographical. In the poem the writer is also in conflict withherself as she has left her country of origin Guyana to move to England. Atfirst the poet dreaded England but as soon as there was news of aHurricane she began to feel much at foundation as hurricanes happen often inthe southern equator. The writer shows her relationship with thehurricane by referring to it as her sweeping a back home cousin. Atthe end of the poem the writer resolves her problem which is herconflict with herself as she misses her homeland Come to let me knowthat the orb is the earth. The similarities of the poems are thatthey both involve the same situation which is conflict with anotherculture. Both poems Presents and Hurricane are autobiographical as I isused which is a first somebody pronoun. Even though the poem Presentsbegins with the third pe rson pronoun They however the poet uses manyfirst person references such as me, I, and My. The poemHurricane also uses third person references such as her which is diligent to distance the character. Presents is structured to showthe conflict of the characters culture and identity. In each paragrapheach sentence is aligned differently however in Hurricane it isstructured differently. In Hurricane the poem is structured to showto build up the climax. The first stanza shows the emotionaldetachment of the author to the hurricane.