Explore the themes of cultural identity and displacement in the poems from ‘Presents My Aunts in Pakistan’ by Moniza Alvie and ‘Hurricane hits England’ by Grace Nichols.
...e to England when she was a baby and doesn’t remember Pakistan, she didn’t revisit Pakistan until she was nearly 40 years old. In this paragraph I will talk about how this poem came to be written. Grace Nichols poem ‘Hurricane hits England’ talks about when she moved from the Caribbean to England a hurricane hit the south of England, and thinks that she has hit to make her feel at home. Hurricanes are often in the Caribbean so it made her feel at home. So she wrote this poem to show how the hurricane hitting England made her feel as if she was back at her Caribbean home. Moniza Alvie’s poem ‘Presents My Aunts in Pakistan’ was written by her because she wanted people to now how she couldn’t fit in with the English fashion, as her clothes were Pakistani fashion. Her culture didn’t fit either as she lived by the Pakistani way of life. In this paragraph I will talk about similes and metaphors in ‘Presents My Aunts in Pakistan’ and ‘Hurricane hits England’. In ‘Presents My Aunts in Pakistan’ Moniza Alvie says ‘glistening like an orange split open’ emphasising the vivid colours of her dress and comparing it to an orange. Moniza Alvie expresses her personal feelings about her and the clothes ‘I could never be as lovely as those clothes’ and it shows she thinks she isn’t good enough or not as beautiful as the people around her. She talks about the colours of the clothes ‘I was aflame’ she doesn’t now who she really is, ‘I couldn’t rise up out of its fire’ shows she doesn’t really feel herself. ‘My costume clung to me’ when you wear a costume...