The Emigree

Question 1

Quotations that shows she looks on her city in a positive way - power of memories

Answer 1

“I am branded by an impression of sunlight”
Sunlight is repeated and there is a semantic field of light

“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants”she still loves her city whatever state it is in now, this is because she knows how beautiful and wonderful it can be and she doesn’t want to lose those memories. The repetition emphasises how the issues are less of a problem for the narrator; the memories she has can’t be ruined.

“The worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view”

‘I comb its hair and love its shining eyes’ These references personify the city as very dear to the narrator, she has a loving relationship with it. It is perhaps a one-sided relationship.

Question 2

Quotation that shows her lack of identity without her city

Answer 2

“I have no passport.” Caesura in the line

Question 3

Structure and form

Answer 3

First 2 stanzas has frequent Enjambment but final stanza has end stopping lines perhaps suggesting her confinement in her new city
Each stanza ends with “sunlight”
Free verse, enjambment and caesura could be used to reflect the chaos in the place she loves, and the lack of power she has that she can’t go there.

Question 4

Identity quotations

Answer 4

“I am branded by an impression of sunlight”
Repetition of “sunlight” throughout the poem to emphasises that no matter what her opinion oboist the place cannot be swayed. The city is her identity despite it being “sick with tyrants”
Reoccurring motif of sunlight
Shown in the opening sentence to convey that she saw her home country as if it were an enchanted place. Rumens uses the poems 3 stanzas to convey the speakers pride in her home country: “there once was a country” done to demonstrate the struggles Rumens witnessed amongst refugees who had migrated yet who were loyal to their country

Question 5

Context

Answer 5

Done to relate to anyone feeling nostalgic about their home they have been forced to leave, done so anyone can reflect to it especially with many immigrants coming to the Uk from Nepal and Russia and Ukraine for example.