The Emigree Flashcards
The speaker of the Emigree is gendered…?
Female
The use of the word (which is different from Immigrant), suggests the poem is about…
Someone’s relationship with the country they left
The speaker’s vision of her old country is naive and idealised in some ways, as shown by the…?
Imagery of a ‘bright filled paperweight’ , a ‘hollow doll’ and other childish nostalgic Metaphors.
The use of sensory language in the reference to the speaker’s mother tongue reinforces…?
Her identification with and pleasure in her old culture/identity
Rumens repeatedly uses the imagery of…[what] to describe her old country?
Light and radiance
The use of light is involved with synaesthesia in stanza 2 when the language…?
‘Tastes of sunlight’
The positive imagery of her old country is contrasted by the negative imagery of…?
War, conflict and death
The speaker;s ‘original view’ is sustained so that…
It offsets the imagery of a totalitarian realm ruled by tyrants
In the ending of the poem, Rumens hints at the racism of the speaker’s adopted country through the line…?
‘The accuse me of being dark in their free city’
The final line contains an affirmation of her identity which ties her to her old country…
‘My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight’
