Thursday, June 11, 2009

Search for my tongue

10 TFe are studying spoken word poetry. As part of this, we are looking at a range of poems that have been written to perform. We watched the poem Search for my Tongue and discussed the imagery used in it to convey the feeling of someone losing their language. The video is from the BBC website, as this poem is taught as part of the GSCE course in the UK.

We used the following poem by Sujatta Bhatt as inspiration for our own poems with the same title.



Click here to watch the animation.

Here is a copy of the text.


1 comment:

Unknown said...

This is an amazing piece of poetry, especially when combined with the animation. You guys are very lucky to have a teacher who exposes you to this kind of work. I am looking forward to reading YOUR poems now.
Mrs Burt