The Emigree Flashcards
Who wrote the emigree
Carol rumens
Form
First person , three eight line stanzas but no regular rhythm or rhyme scheme. First two stanzas contain lots of enjambment but there’s more end stopping in the final stanza. This reflects the speakers feeling of confinement in her new ‘city of walls’
Structure
Memory of the city grows and solidify as the poem moves on- the City becomes a physical presence for the speaker In the final stanza. Each stanza ends with sunlight, reinforcing the fact that the speaker sees the city as a positive light
Language of conflict
War, invasion and tyranny.
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Sunlight - clear
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The bright, filled paperweight - metaphor suggests hat the memories are positive but fixed
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Sick with tyrants
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White , glow to describe the city - pure, heaven like
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Child’s vocabulary - every coloured molecule of it - the metaphor makes the language seem bright nd precious
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I have no passport, there’s no way back at all - hopelessness contrasted with ‘but my city comes to me in its own white plane - memory’s
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City of walls - sees the city she is in now restrictive and repition of ‘they accuse me ‘ reinforces the threat
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There once was a country
What is the city going under and what does the title mean
May be at war and emigree meaning she was forced to leave
