Poetry

Question 1

Themes of emigree (4)

Answer 1

Loss and absence, memory, identity, individual experience

Question 2

Emigree quotes (9)

Answer 2

• there was a country
• branded by the impression of sunlight
• it may be at war, it may be filled with tyrants
• my city hides behind me
• time rolls it’s tanks
• I have no passport , I have no way back at all
• city comes to me in its own white plane
• they accuse me
• white streets

Question 3

Emigree form

Answer 3

-First person, no regular rhythm, end stopping showing her confinement
- light language
- war vocab

Question 4

Emigree feelings

Answer 4

Nostalgia and threat

Question 5

Prelude themes (5)

Answer 5

• fear
• pride
• power of nature
• memory
• individual experience

Question 6

Prelude quotes (8)

Answer 6

• elfin pinnace
• act of stealth
• troubled pleasure
• like a swan
• ‘when’ volta
• strode after me
• there hung a darkness , call it solitude
• No pleasant images of trees

Question 7

Prelude form

Answer 7

• Regular first person rhythm to show casual speech
• nice to dark tone
• beautiful language

Question 8

Prelude feelings

Answer 8

Confidence , fear and reflection

Question 9

Remains themes (4)

Answer 9

Effect and reality of conflict, fear, individual experience

Question 10

Remains quotes (7)

Answer 10

• possibly armed possibly not
• all three of us open fire
• rips through his life
• sort of inside out
• blood shadow
• then I’m home on leave
• bursts again through the doors of the bank
• sleep, dream (caesura)
• his bloody life in my bloody hands

Question 11

Remains form

Answer 11

• we to I, represents confession
• amusing anecdote to graphic description
• repitition

Question 12

Remains feelings

Answer 12

Nonchalance and guilt

Question 14

Emigree themes (4)

Answer 14

-loss and absence
- memory
- identity
- experience