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

What does the direction a person speaks tell us about the person?Unrelated Incidents by Tom Leonard and wait for my Tongue bySujata Bhatt are two poems that give people an incite into how aperson is perceive by others, by the way that they speak. UnrelatedIncidents is about how the BBC news supposeers all talking in StandardEnglish and will not have a Scotch person reading the news becausethe viewers will not understand there accent, Tom Leonard views thisas discrimination and shows his dislike to this attitude in his poem.Search for my Tongue is about Sujata Bhatts personal experienceswith learning another language and having to speak in a foreign dialectand forgetting about the amaze tongue which is the original language.When Sujata thinks that she has finally 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. When thenewsreaders reads ou t the news they read it off of autocue and this ishow the poem is set out. When first looking at Unrelated Incidentsit is heavy to read because of the spellings of the words. Thepoem is written phonetically and not in Standard English. Tom Leonardsays in line 27-30 this is me token yir right way a spellin. Leonardto a fault 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 universe written as if it were the six clock news.This is different to Search for my Tongue because Sujata Bhatt for15 lines writes in English but then 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 part of the poem writtenagain and when you read it the first part sounds harsh and not verynice to read but when you read it for a second time in Gujarati itflows and is ni ce 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 cosmos is angry for being rejected bythe BBC just because of the way that he talks and because of hisaccent and in Search for my Tongue she is upset with herself for not