the emigree

Question 1

who wrote the emigree

Answer 1

Carol Rumens

Question 2

what is the conflict

Answer 2

• between memory and reality
  -internal conflict between positive and negative- not letting go

Question 3

what is this poem about

Answer 3

• narrator tells story of a country she was forced to leave as a child
  -she is recalling it through memory
  -she only sees positive memories but as time goes on she sees the clarity of the situation

Question 4

what word is repeated throughout the poem and why

Answer 4

-“sunlight”
-emphasizes the speaker’s idealized and vibrant memories of her homeland

Question 5

what is the quote “ they accuse me of absence, they circle me they accuse me of being dark” about + methods

Answer 5

-emphatic repetition
show persecution narrator endures in their new homes by creating a violent tone
-foreshadow trouble
-threat, forbidding

Question 6

what is the quote “I comb its hair and love its shining eyes “ about + methods

Answer 6

• personification of her city
  -romantic language
  -maternal feelings towards city
  -part of extended metaphor
  -shows childlike innocence and nostalgia

Question 7

what is the quote “ the white streets pop that city, the graceful slopes” about + methods

Answer 7

-metaphorical
-heaven like view
-despite chaos she still clings to the positive view

Question 8

what is the power of

Answer 8

• a place
  -memory

Question 9

why is there no names o places and people in the poem

Answer 9

• so it can be a universal experience and people can interpret it into their own experience around the world