The Emigree Flashcards
1
Q
Language:
A
The city is personified as reflects the nature of herself, her own personality and growth.
2
Q
Evidence for language
A
“I comb hair and love its shinning eyes”
=personify
She treats the memory with almost child like tenderness reflects her own memories of childhood linked to the city
3
Q
Evidence for langauge p2
A
“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants”
=personify
The city to create the sense That it has been infected but can recover almost hopeful yet deluded idea
4
Q
Structure
A
The poem does not have a particularly consistent structure or any use of run this perhaps encapulates The still uncertain understanding of the speaker about her city