The Emigree Flashcards
Quote 1: fairytale
“There was since a a country…”
Quote 2: sun makes happy
“My memory of it is sunlight-clear”
Quote 3: I don’t believe it!
“Which, I am told, comes to the mildest city” reluctant to believe, superlative of mildest
Quote 4: MY ORIGINAL VIEW STAYS STRONG
“the worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view”
Quote 5: bright weight
“The bright, filled paperweight.” Filled with dreams, Kees it in its place, still vulnerable
Quote 6:MAYBE!!??:?.
“it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants” may is repeated conveying lack of belief
Quote 7: brands
“But I am branded with an impression of sunlight” permanence
Quote 8: white town
“White streets of that city” untainted in their mind
Quote 9: tank
“Rolls it’s tanks and the frontiers rise between us” - oppression war imagery
Quote 10: innocence
“Childs vocabulary I carried here”
Quote 11: colour
“Soon I shall have every coloured molecule of it” preserve white
Quote 12: ban
“May by now be a lie banned by the state” autocratic
Quote 13: tongue
“Can’t get it off my tongue” permanence
Quote 14: dolly
“I comb its hair and love its shiny eyes
Quote 15: MEEEE
Repetition of “me” in last stanza conveys impression
