The Emigrée Flashcards
Form: Genre
Free verse to reflect her chaos-stricken country and how it has no control
LA: Memories of her country are weighing her down
“The bright, filled paperweight”
Metaphor for it weighing her down.
Could be interpreted as keeping her secure.
LA: Memories of her country have permanently scarred her
“Branded by an impression of sunlight”
LA: Sunlight as a metaphor for her country, hope
“It tastes of sunlight”
“My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
“Branded by an impression of sunlight”
LA: Country as a metaphor for childhood
“I left it as a child”
LA: Personification
“I comb its hair and love its shining eyes”
Connotes a child
LA: Heavenly imagery
“The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes glow even clearer as time rolls its tanks”
Enjambment, colour imagery
LA: Juxtaposition of freedom and imprisonment
“My city takes me dancing through the city of walls”
Structure: Volta to dark imagery
Line 26.
“Dark in their free city”
“My city hides behind me. They mutter death” (Caesura)
Tense changes to present, with dark imagery as she isn’t in her country.
LA: Her country has been invaded
“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants”
She still loves it even in its war-torn state
