Emigre Flashcards
1
Q
Memory - perhaps of things that aren’t there any more
A
Past tense ( the past is distant in space and time) «there once was a country…»
2
Q
Memory - perhaps of things that aren’t there any more
A
Contrast with now; «later a single dove flew from the pear tree…»
3
Q
Intensely physical responses to the situation - both the present and the remembered past
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Of language: «I can’t get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight»
4
Q
Which makes an experience that could befall anyone become specific to the speakers in these poems
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Imprecise language: «it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants»
