the emigree

Question 1

give the first line and the effect of the ellipses?

Answer 1

-“there once was a country…I left it as a child”
-creates a sense of exploring past memories and perhaps a struggle to remember

Question 2

what it the effect of the pathetic fallacy “sunlight-clear”?

Answer 2

creates a very childish tone which juxtaposes the readers knowledge of war-torn countries

Question 3

give a quote that uses an aside and what is the effect of this aside?

Answer 3

-“which, I am told, comes to the mildest city”
-creates a sense of suspition from the speaker as they appear unable to grapple with the fact that their country is broken

Question 4

give the paperweight quote and the meaning?

Answer 4

-“my original view, the bright, filled paperweight”
-her perception of her city if frozen in an idyllic time like a scene in a paperwieght

Question 5

give the quote where the city is personified as being sick and the purpose of this

Answer 5

-“it may be sick with tyrants”
-it is currently infected but, like a sick person, could still recover

Question 6

give the quote about branding and the message

Answer 6

-“I am branded by an impression of sunlight”
-a brand is something very visceral and real that stays with the victim = he memory is always with her
-also juxtaposes sun (happy) with pain

Question 7

give a quote about the city that demonstrates innocence

Answer 7

“the white streets of that city”

Question 8

give a quote that involves time and war imagery? what is the anaylisis of this line?

Answer 8

-“as time rolls its tanks”
-she sees time that she is away from her home as ominous as a war

Question 9

give a quote where juxtaposition is used involving sea imagery and analyse

Answer 9

-“the frontiers rise between us, close like waves”
-juxtaposes war with the purity of nature - although she is torn from her country she has faith in its purity

Question 10

give the quote involving synesthesia and the anaylisis?

Answer 10

-“It tastes of sunlight”
-the blur between sight and taste demonstrates the flawed memory of the speaker as they confuse senses

Question 11

give the quote that personifies the city and the anayslisis?

Answer 11

-“my city comes to me in its own white plane”
-peaceful, white=innocence, possesive makes it seem strong

Question 12

give the impact of “docile as paper” regarding the city?

Answer 12

paper suggests a blank sheet so therefore emptyness and vaunerability

Question 13

give the quote begining “I comb…” and analyse it?

Answer 13

-“I comb its hair and love its shining eyes”
-she treats the memory with childlike tenderness as she was a child/younger when she lived in her city – distances her from it

Question 14

give a quote that juxtaposes the old, memory city with the new city - analyse

Answer 14

-“my city takes me dancing through the city of walls”
-posesive of old city but not new, her light is kept alive by her city and this helps her to overcome news of it now

Question 15

give a quote that involves repetition of “accuse” and analyse it

Answer 15

-“they accuse me of absence…they accuse me of being dark in their free city”
-sinister feel given to new city showing how we she feels no connection to the new version of it (reinforces by pronoun ‘they’)

Question 16

what is the last line and what does it show?

Answer 16

-“my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
-the contrasting of the two cities perhaps shows her coming to terms with the fact that her city is not alike to the city that now remains

Question 17

what is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

Answer 17

no use of rhyme perhaps to represent the uncertainty of the speaker about their city