The emigree

Question 1

quote 1

Answer 1

but my memory of it is sunlight-clear

Question 2

quote 2

Answer 2

i comb its hair and love its shining eyes./my city takes me dancing through the city/ of walls.

Question 3

quote 3

Answer 3

and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.

Question 4

context

Answer 4

-memory of the poet and their experiences in a far off city
-bases off ideas of emigration to flee corruption and tyranny
-doesn’t conform to a particular historical context to universally focus on emotional experience of emigration

Question 5

structure

Answer 5

-fairly regular structure imposes a sense of order over her city
first person, free verse-emotions of speaker
-repetition of they separates her and her city
-less enjambment through poem, initial freedom of old city and now lack of control