The Emigree

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Poet - Rumens

Question 2

Structure

Answer 2

Soliloquy / Monologue
Caesura / Ellipses in line 1 indicates memory
Volta after line 22

Question 3

Light imagery

Answer 3

Presents memory of city in positive way
‘white’ - heavenly

Question 4

‘bright filled paperweight’

Answer 4

Suggests her memories are stable and her view is fixed.
Adds value

Question 5

City extended metaphor for lost childhood

Answer 5

No adult can return

Question 6

‘My city takes me dancing through the city / of walls’

Answer 6

Connotes entrapment

Question 7

Repetition of ‘they’

Answer 7

Speaker feeling oppressed by them (‘circle me’)

Question 8

‘Sick with tyrants’

Answer 8

Personification
Home has been invaded and may possibly have changed

Question 9

Semantic field of war:
-‘frontiers’
-‘war’

Answer 9

Sense that the city isn’t as perfect as the speaker remembers it

Question 10

“That child’s vocabulary I carried here”

Answer 10

Remainders of speaker’s native language and how it seems the most natural speech for her is part of her identity