The emigree Flashcards
What is the mnemonic for this poem?
IMIMI
“It ___ ___ ___ ____, ___ ___ __ ___ ____ _____”
“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants”
“ my _____ ___ ___ ___ ______ ____”
“ my memory of it is sunlight clear”
“I ____ ____ ____ _ _____ ____”
“I carried here like a hollow doll”
“My ___ _____ __ _______ _______ ___ ____ __ _____”
“
My city takes me dancing through the city of walls”
“I ____ ___ ______, _______ __ _____ _____ __ ___”
“I have no passport, there’s no way back at all”
Who wrote the Emigree?
Carol Rumens
Was the poet emigrant?
No, she wasn’t
About which war the poet is writing about?
The Bosnien war
“It ___ ___ ___ ____, ___ ___ __ ___ ____ _____”, methods
“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants”
- suggestion that the country has been invaded and that the speaker’s positive view of it isn’t accurate
- language conflict
- repetition of the phrase “ it may be “, reinforces that she doesn’t knows really what is happening in her country, somebody else told this to her
-personification of the “sick with tyrants”
“ my _____ ___ ___ ___ ______ ____”,methods
“ my memory of it is sunlight clear”
- memory clear and happy
- enjambment
- repetition of the noun “sunlight”, positive memory about her country
- child’s imagery? Remembers everything from childhood?
“I ____ ____ ____ _ _____ ____” ,methods
“I carried here like a hollow doll”
-simile, suggests how hard it is to learn new language, and she is forgetting her own language from her country
- child’s imagery?
-doll is a symbol?
“My ___ _____ __ _______ _______ ___ ____ __ _____”
“My city takes me dancing through the city of walls”
- metaphor, evokes that she is full of good memory about her city and she is happy in there
- ” city of walls”, contrasting perceptions of the city the speaker is now in - she sees it as restrictive, but” they” see it as “free”
“I ____ ___ ______, _______ __ _____ _____ __ ___”, methods
- repetition of the noun? “no”, reinforces that no one is cares about her?
-stanza sounds hopeless
Form:
- no rhyme scheme
- 8 line stanza
-enjambment (sunlight 2nd stanza)
