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Tag: John Montague

A Grafted Tongue by John Montague – Analysis

Posted on September 7, 2021September 7, 2021 by JL Admin

In his terse poem “A Grafted Tongue,” Montague presents a series of powerful snapshots of the process by which a colonizing power uses language to cement its control over a subject people. It also shows how this process wrenches apart the entire established order of the dispossessed culture and causes great personal suffering. Like the…

A Grafted Tongue by John Montague – Summary

Posted on September 7, 2021September 7, 2021 by JL Admin

Stanza 1  The first eight lines of “A Grafted Tongue” are enclosed in parentheses, separating them from the main body of the poem. Line 1, consisting of just one word, “Dumb,” succinctly announces one of the poem’s themes: the inability to communicate through a language that has been forcibly imposed on one’s native tongue. Line…

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