The emigree. Flashcards
Who wrote the Emigree?
Carol Rumens.
What is the effect of an ellipses?
It creates a caesura, indicating flashbacks of past memories.
What effect does the repetition of “accuse” have?
It gives a sinister identity to the new city’s oppression.
What is an example of personification?
‘My city comes to me’
‘Time rolls its tanks’
What is the effect of synaesthesia? “it tastes of sunlight”.
The blur between taste and vision, the jumbling of
senses in order to show the confusion of memories and emphasises with repetition the clearly flawed but joyous nature of the memory.
How does the poem begin?
‘There once was a country’.
What is taken away when she moves to the new country?
Her passport.
Which poem does it link with most effectively?
Checking Out Me History.
What is an emigrant?
Someone who leaves their country to settle in another, permanently.
There is a strong sense of what in the poem?
Nostalgia.
Give an example of personification in the poem:“
“I comb its hair and love its shining eyes”.
What poems could you comapre with The Emigree on the theme of power of place?
London
The Prelude.
What poems could compare with The Emigree on the theme of Identity?
Kamikaze
Checking Out Me History.
and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.
Contrast, of darkness and light used to show the speaker coming to terms.
with the two separate identities.
Themes:
The poem has a deep sense of conflict in terms of emotions and memory, the poet is torn between her childhood memory and her adult understanding. This also reflects in the form of the city itself today which has become a hostile totalitarian place. The concept of a city can be a metaphor for memories and growth in general, progression from childhood to maturity.
