Poem - The Emigrée Flashcards

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Why can we infer that the persona is a female?

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Émigrée means émigrant but is in the feminine form

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This 1st simile shows distance between the adult and her childhood home. It is both a physical and metaphorical distance.

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frontiers rise between us, close like waves

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This 2nd simile shows the distance between the adult and her childhood home. It is both a physical and metaphorical distance.

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That child’s vocabulary I carried here/ like a hollow doll

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The place is not as perfect as she remembers it and these quotes imply that things are not as ideal as her memories suggest.

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‘being dark’ and ‘death’

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Despite it being banned, she wants to use her beloved language

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Every colourful molecule

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The details are very vague throughout the poem. What could this show?

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The place she visits isn’t real, just a metaphor for the world of childhood.

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There is a distinct change of tone between the first two stanzas and the last one

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The first two are about light, the last is much darker

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This poem does not rhyme or have any rhythm. What could this convey?

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The uneasiness felt by the speaker who goes through the full range of emotions

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When thinking about her homeland images of light suggest happiness and positivity yet this quote implies pain. It suggests that she belongs here, but belonging to such a place has been painful.

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Branded by an impression of sunlight

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These five words suggest a war-torn country

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“worst news”, “at war”, “tyrants”, “rolls its tanks”, and “banned by the state”

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What word and punctuation do all the stanzas end with?

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Sunlight.

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The city is personified as?

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Docile

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How is the city personified as a lover?

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Takes me dancing

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The city is personified as fearful

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Hides behind me

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This shows how the speaker can’t suppress the language

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Opens and spills a grammar

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This shows how the speaker is helping and loving her city

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Comb its hair

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These similes show the susceptibility to breakage

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“Hollow doll” and “paper”