the poem A Different History‚ by an Indian Poet named Sujata Bhatt‚ expresses her feelings towards the change of her culture after the British Colonization. In this poem‚ the speaker explains in a disappointed tone how the culture and language changed as the generations passed on. Using strong diction and repetitions in each stanza‚ she describes how the culture is changing and how the people are affected too. 1 At the very first stanza‚ Bhatt used poetic devices such as allusions and imagery to
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* What are the business goals of SFPUC? How is knowledge management related to those goals? * To supply some of the purest drinking water in the world to San Francisco and neighbouring Santa Clara and San Mateo counties; and the Wastewater division handles flushed and drained water to significantly reduce pollution in the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean. The mission of this organization is to provide San Francisco and its Bay Area customers with reliable‚ high-quality‚ affordable water and
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strikingly convey a sense of character in either Storyteller (by Liz Loch head) or Farmhand (by James Baxter). Or 2 Explore the ways in which attitudes to children and work are depicted in both Carpet-weavers‚ Morocco (by Carol Rumens) and Muliebrity (by Sujata Bhatt). Or 3 Explore how feelings about childhood are depicted in two of the following poems: Little Boy Crying (by Mervyn Morris) Rising Five (by Norman Nicholson) Plenty (by Isobel Dixon) Paper 3 Either 1 Explore how a powerful
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This passage is taken from the book Songs of Ourselves. This poem written by Sujata Bhatt is written post the British colonisation of India and importance of religions and culture in India. It is a poem written about the social and political concern of the lost of cultural identical renunciation of Indian identity. The poem is based on Religion and a bit of Greek Mythology. All the lines are not of the same length. This shows us that the poem is meant to be read slowly with understanding. The effect
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A Different story-Sujata Bhatt The poem a different story was written by Sujata Bhatt‚ who was born on the 6th May 1956 in Ahmedabad‚ and brought up in Pune until 1968. Many of her poems have themes of love and violence. Bhatt explores issues such as racism and the interaction between Asian‚ European and North American. Sujata Bhatt has experienced three different cultures: the Indian culture‚ American culture and the German culture she has had to adapt to all of them and now she cannot tell us
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A different History Sujata Bhatt The poem ’A different History’‚ written by Sujata Bhatt is written post the British colonisation of India. The poem is based on Indian religion and a bit of Greek mythology. The poem talks about different cultures‚ mainly Indian and the colonisation of India. As Bhatt has experienced three different cultures; the Indian culture‚ the American culture and the German culture‚ the poem reflects on the differences in cultures and delves into mainly the Indian culture
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A Different History By Sujata Bhatt In the poem ’A Different History’ Sujata Bhatt expresses her emotions in many different ways on the sensitive topic on how India became a British colonie. Bhatt starts with talking of the peaceful life as a god living in India with the example of saying "Great Pan is not dead;he simply emigrated to India.Here‚ the gods roam freely‚ " In this phrase Bhatt indirectly states that India is more peaceful for a god of nature (Pan) than it is in Greece which could
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"[I‚ being born a woman and distressed]" by Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnet‚ “I‚ Being Born a Woman and Distressed‚” serves as an excellent example of a multi-faceted piece. From one angle‚ it is simply a Petrarchan sonnet‚ written with a slight variation on rhyme scheme – but that variation‚ taken deeper‚ reveals new layers of meaning. Added to Millay’s choice of meter and end-stop‚ along with a background of Millay’s person‚ this sonnet seems not so “simple” after all
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for my Tongue” by Sujata Bhatt and “Half Caste” by John Agard‚ there are a variety of language features used such as personification‚ metaphors and repetition‚ which personally made descriptions in the poem more vivid. These techniques aided in making these poems more powerful and helped to effectively convey the messages that our identities are engraved in us and that we need to reconsider using the derogatory term ‘half-caste’ as it identifies people as ‘half’ people. Sujata Bhatt uses metaphors in
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The poem "A different history" is a wonderful poem written by "Sujata Bhatt". This poem is about two gods Pan and Saraswati. The poet talks to us about how they are all around us and other religious believes. In this essay I would be exploring the poetic devices used and also I would talk about topics talked upon in the poem. The poem consists of twenty nine lines and is divided into two stanzas with eighteen lines and eleven lines. The first stanza talks about the god s in India and the second
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