Unrelated Incidents’ by Tom Leonard and Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt :: English Literature

What does the way a person speaks tell us more or less the person?Unrelated Incidents by Tom Leonard and hunt for my lingua bySujata Bhatt are two verse forms that give people an incite into how aperson is perceived by others, by the way that they speak. UnrelatedIncidents is about how the BBC news guideers all talking in standardizedEnglish and will non have a Scottish person chartering the news becausethe viewing audience will not understand there accent, Tom Leonard views thisas contrariety and shows his dislike to this attitude in his verse.Search for my Tongue is about Sujata Bhatts personal experienceswith learning another language and having to speak in a foreign tongueand forgetting about the mother tongue which is the original language.When Sujata thinks that she has ultimately lost her mother tongue shestarts to hear it again in her dreams.The layout of the poem Unrelated Incidents is set out in an unusualway because of the poem talking about the BBC newsreaders. W hen thenewsreaders reads out the news they read it off of prompter and this ishow the poem is set out. When first looking at Unrelated Incidentsit is herculean to read because of the spellings of the words. Thepoem is written phonetically and not in Standard English. Tom Leonardsays in string 27-30 this is me token yir right way a spellin. Leonardalso uses colloquial which is slang he uses it in the last line withbelt up he does this to mock the way the news is read because of thepoem being written as if it were the six clock news.This is contrary to Search for my Tongue because Sujata Bhatt for15 lines writes in English but thence from line 16-29 writes in Gujaratiwhich is her mother language, beneath this it also tells the readerhow to read this language (which is spelt phonetically). The lineswritten in Gujarati is actually the first cancel of the poem writtenagain and when you read it the first part sounds tart and not verynice to read but when you read it for a second tim e in Gujarati itflows and is nice to read.In Unrelated Incidents and Search for my Tongue they either arecross or upset with themselves or with others around them. In the poemUnrelated Incidents the Scottish man is provoked for being rejected bythe BBC just because of the way that he dialog and because of hisaccent and in Search for my Tongue she is upset with herself for not