Oppression - Emigree Flashcards
1
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Significance of the title
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Its in French - 2 identities - 2 languages. Also means immigrant
2
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Opneing part of the poem
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“There once was a country… I left as a child but my me,ory is sunlight clear” - past tense, holding ontoher childhood memorys.
3
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Metaphor for her original view
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“The bright, filled paperweight” - suggests shes trying to hold on to her memorys of her real home
4
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Language of brightness and light
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“Sunlight” “white streets” “white plane”
5
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Imagery - to show experience of immigrants
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“Accuse me of being dark in their free city” , “they mutter death”, “ my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
