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...s not know what to say. While dreaming, the poet uses metaphors to describe her tongue. She compares it with a plant when she says it grows back, a stump of shoot grows longer. I feel that the poem should be read sadly when reading about the idea of losing the mother tongue but angrily at the thought of speaking a foreign tongue and happily towards the end of the poem when she dreams about the mother tongue getting stronger in her mind. In the poem Presents from my aunts in Pakistan the presents she receives from her aunts were a Salwar Kameez and a camel skin lamp; a salwar kameez is a type of loose fitting trousers worn by both men and women in many parts of Asia. The people in Pakistan wear bright and vivid coloured clothing, its a part of their tradition and culture. The bright colours suggest the clothes are burning 'I was aflame...I couldn't rise up out of its fire' a powerful metaphor for the discomfort felt by the poet who "longed...for denim and corduroy" plainer but comfortable and inconspicuous. Another object from Pakistan that she mentions in the poem is her parents camel skin lamp. Although she admires the lamp she is put off by the crue...