Singh Song!

• Singh Song is about  the love a shop-worker has for his wife and he how he abandons his duties in the shop to make love to her when no one is noticing
• What did Daljit Nagra call English love poems?

  "Moody and Grim"
• Whats singh song written in?

  phonetic accent mixing English with Punjabi
• Why did Nagra write phonetically?

  To purposely make his western audience speak in an Indian accent, to normalize it
• What does the repetition in 'vee share in chapatti, vee share in di chutney' represent?

  Unity and Togetherness
• Why is Singh's shop 'di worst Indian shop on di whole Indian road'


  Because he's too obsessed with his wife.
• How are the themes in first 4 stanzas structured?

  Work Marriage Work Marriage.
• What does the structure of themes in the first four stanzas represent?

  Singhs inability to focus on his wife and his work at the same time, Because they are both so important in his life.
• Nagra uses half rhyme at the start of the poem and full rhyme towards the end, Why is this?

  At the start of the poem he is working in the shop, away from his wife so he feels incomplete without her. Later on when they are sat together he uses the full rhyme to show how she completes him.