🌞 the emigrée quotes

Question 1

• the emigrée
• sunlight
• memory is not real because can never be in sunlight
• precious memory

Answer 1

‘but my memory of it is sunlight-clear’

Question 2

• the emigrée
• stops paper from blowing away has precious things inside
• stablity and hold her steady
• metaphor to connect paper because she recreates this city on paper through the poem

Answer 2

‘the bright, filled paperweights’

Question 3

• the emigrée
• metaphor
• time is like an enemy
• city is conquered and also memories
• tanks of the soviet

Answer 3

‘as time rolls its tanks’

Question 4

• the emigrée
• treating like a doll
• joy of the memory or tears as this imagined memory cannot be recovered so childhood is gone

Answer 4

‘I comb its hair and love its shining eyes’

Question 5

• the emigrée
• persecution endures in their new home
• no longer welcome in the city that shes left

Answer 5

‘They accuse me of absence’