Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan

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Poem by Moniza Alvi

"Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" is a poem by Moniza Alvi.[1] Alvi describes a few gifts that she receives from her aunts. This is a metaphor for her Pakistani culture, and she says how much it clashes with her English culture. The poem is about the poet's struggle to find which culture she truly belongs to; Pakistani or English. It is included in Cluster 2, Poems from Different Cultures, of the AQA Anthology.

References

  1. ^ Web Archive - BBC GCSE Bitesize.
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AQA Anthology (2004)
Poems from
Other Cultures
Cluster 1
Cluster 2
Seamus Heaney
Gillian Clarke
Carol Ann Duffy
Simon Armitage
  • "Mother, any distance greater than a single span"
  • "My father thought it..."
  • "Homecoming"
  • "November"
  • "Kid"
  • "Those bastards in their mansions"
  • "I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself"
  • "Hitcher"
Pre-1914
Prose

External links

  • Poem Hunter