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English literary productions PoemsCompargon the methods that Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan hiresto highlight the importance of cultural identity with some other poesy?I have chosen to compare Presents and Hurricane as two poemshighlight the importance of cultural identity in society. some(prenominal) poetsAlvi and Nicholas employ many different and similar methods toillustrate the importance of cultural identity.The poem Presents is about the source herself at a younger age liveliness insecure as she is of dual heritage (mixed race) in myEnglish grandmas dining - room. In the poem the poet begins toconflict with herself as she believes that she is not of one set raceI was there of no placed nationality. Throughout the poem the poetbegins to show her insecurity as she begins to respond to the presentsher aunties bought her from her inwrought land negatively I could neverbe as endearing as those clothes. A t the end of the poem the Alvi is ineffective to resolve her pro blem as she finishes the poem feeling quite a polish up saying I was there of no fixed nationality. The poemHurricane is rather similar in the way that it is againautobiographical. In the poem the writer is also in conflict withherself as she has left her motherland Guyana to resettlement to England. At origin the poet dreaded England but as soon as there was news of aHurricane she began to feel much at groundwork as hurricanes happen often inthe southern equator. The writer shows her kind with thehurricane by referring to it as her sweeping a back home full cousin. Atthe end of the poem the writer resolves her problem which is herconflict with herself as she misses her homeland Come to let me knowthat the earth is the earth. The similarities of the poems are thatthey both involve the same situation which is conflict with anotherculture. Both poems Presents and Hurricane are autobiographical as I isused which is a first-class honours degree person pronoun. Even though the poem Presentsbegins with the third person pronoun They so far the poet uses manyfirst person references such as me, I, and My. The poemHurricane also uses third person references such as her which isemployed to remoteness the character. Presents is organise to showthe conflict of the characters culture and identity. In each paragrapheach sentence is aligned differently however in Hurricane it isstructured differently. In Hurricane the poem is structured to showto build up the climax. The first stanza shows the emotionaldetachment of the author to the hurricane.