The Emigree Flashcards

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Context

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Poet - Rumens

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Structure

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

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Light imagery

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

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‘bright filled paperweight’

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

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City extended metaphor for lost childhood

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No adult can return

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

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Connotes entrapment

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Repetition of ‘they’

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Speaker feeling oppressed by them (‘circle me’)

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‘Sick with tyrants’

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Personification
Home has been invaded and may possibly have changed

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

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

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“That child’s vocabulary I carried here”

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

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