BILINGUALISM

Espaillat's use of parentheses to translate several words into Spanish, makes the audience more concerned by the text and it's like she wants us to really understand her writes and what she mind. She also translated words that are important for her like citations. The method that she used is different than Bhatt's and Alvarez.In Bhatt's poem, he swithes English  to Gujarati and back again,with this the audience can't be focus on the poem,they will be confused because most of them won't read the second language,because they do not uderstand it then they won't understand the poem. We can see that he wants to show a part of his culture and language, but give a text to a person who doesn't understand it,is equal to give nothing. In Alvarez's poem,mixes language is also different but close to Bhatt's one,the audience can't be focus on it,because they have to always look for the words that they don't understand because they don't have translation in the text.

In this Poem,the father insisted to separated the two languages"one there" "one here" "English outside" "Spanish inside", btut this idea didn't work with her and she wasn't able to separated the two languages. The father could keep it serapated but she still the heart was one. Now she feels like she is a combinaison of two world and two culture.

In Bhatt's poem,there is also the idea of separation"had two tongues in your mouth" "You could not use them together" we can see with it that the author is also frustrate but will keep his mother language.

Alvarez said that she was confused.

In her poem,the author mentionned that children learn by pointing a thing and say it out loud,and by associeted an image with words. This is how memories are creating and stay stick forever.

In the poem Bilingual Sestina, ther is an irony at the last part"I hear my Spanish beating inside what I say en ingles", the author wants to say that even if she is speaking English,Spanish is in her mind, so she can't really speaks English.

In "Seach For My tongue,Bhatt plays with the literally meaning and figurative meaning of the word tongue by using moral feelings with physical,to help people to understand her poem.

Write a poem is not like write an aticles,memoirs or journals. Poem is a kind of way to express our sentiments and our desire. In journals,articles memoirs,the readers  just have to read it and it's all,but in a poem, the readers have to analyze every words that the author used,they have to think like the author and to read many times to understand the author. The author also have to weight his words and to make sure that the reader will think like him and understand it. Then,by this ways,poems is a better way to be understand and to understand and I think that it's why they choosed it.