1. A Different History
Sujata Bhatt

2. Contents Who am I? Her rewards What do I write?
Who were my influences?
My writing style
The Poem
Its message
Its theme
Its structure
My Contemporaries

3. Who am I? Born in 1956 on the 6th of May in Ahmedabad, India
She was brought up in Pune, India until when she went to America and went to the University of Iowa where she received an MFA
She now lives in Germany with her German husband, Michael Augustin who is a writer and her daughter.
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4. Her Rewards Commonwealth Poetry Prize – Asia 1988
Alice Hunt Bartlett Award- 1988
Cholmondeley Award -1991
Poetry Book Society-1991
Italian Tratti poetry prize-2000
Poetry Book Society- 2000
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5. What do I write?
She has written a series of poetry collections which she has received numerous awards for.
Buzinem Carcanet press
Monkey Shadows Carcanet press-1991
The striking rose carcanet press
Point no. point Carcanet Press
Augatora Carcanet Press
The colour of Solitude Candedition Carcanet press- 2008
Pure lizard Carcanet Press
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6. Who were my influences? My travels and culture influence my writing.
When I was twelve my main models were Christina Rossetti and Waler de la Mare
My main influence was Eleanor Wilner, who I still turn to and reflect on when writing poems
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7. My writing style
tory+analyticall+essay
Personification
Short
Metaphors
Religion
Repetition
Rhetorical questions
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8. My Contemporaries John Ashberry Meena Alexander Tejdeep A.K. Ramanujan
Sudeep Sen
K. Satchidanandan
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9. The Poem
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10. Its Messages
In the first sentence, Bhatt talks about ‘Great Pan’, who is a god of the nature in Greek religion. She speaks of him emigrating to India, as if it were a heaven.
In the 3rd sentence, she talks of books been abused and that being a sin. Then later on, she makes reference to how you should treat books with respect, so you wouldn’t offend the tree, whose paper was made.
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11. Its Theme
During her lifetime, Bhatt has experienced 3 different cultures. The Indian culture, the American culture and the German culture.
She has had to adapt from all of them and now she choose which culture is truly hers. The poem is reflecting her past and she is telling us about the differences in the cultures and how people act strangely towards people from different cultures.
This poem is telling the reader how different the world is. She interrelates the Indian culture through this poem by mentioning the gods.

12. The poem is written in free verse and there is space every 2nd stanza.
Its Structure
The poem is written in free verse and there is space every 2nd stanza.