"Search For My Tongue" By: Sujata Bhatt

 Search For my Tounge

Question 6: What ideas or issues are explored? What is your opinion about the issue?

Answer: In this poem Sujata Bhatt is expressing her feelings towards not being able to use her mother tongue. She has problems fearing that because of where she lives she can't use her mother tongue on a daily use, because of this Sujata fears that her mother tongue will be lost forever. The issues created makes Sujata feel like she will have to learn her mother tongue all over again, or not be able to learn it at all.  In my opinion, I would feel the same way as the author. The reason being that using your foreign tongue on a daily basis, and not using your mother tongue would make you feel like you would have forgotten everything from your mother tongue. I would feel very alone and always have a constant fear that if I don't use my mother tongue I won't know how to speak it any more, and I wouldn't be able to communicate with my family and friends. I would feel that one day my mother tongue might just "not be there" any more, and I would be left alone to try to figure out how to get it back. From reading this poem, I think that the author has a valid reason to fear that one day she might not remember her mother tongue, but she will always know that it will be in her heart and she will remember.