The Emigree Flashcards
1
Q
There once was a country
A
- fantastical tone to highlight the place is in his memory rather than reality
- shows how the speaker romanticises his memory but never as perfect as depicted
- Rumens use of ellipsis creates a pause necessary for the narrator to gather thought and carry on with story
- use of temporal deixis from outset creates a childlike tone which suggests he hasn’t let go of the past
2
Q
Stanza 2
A
- repetition of ‘they’ creates an aggressive and accusatory tone to make the city seem threatening and hostile which reflects aggression aimed at the ziti end of the next city due to their racism ‘accuse me of been dark’
- she is experiencing racism
- no ‘sunlight’ suggest feelings of segregation though repetition of ‘their city’ and ‘Allah hey accuse me of being absence’
3
Q
‘It lies down in front of me, docile as paper; I comb it’s hair and love it’s shinning eyes’
A
- personification
- speaking directly to us to show up that paper is the city
- she is recreating the city through the poem to get her childhood memory back, she realises she’s controlling her memories my not be fully real, as the shining eyes of a doll is not actually true, suggesting the images of her country is actually not fully true
- sense of loneliness, she feels like a child who’s been abandoned as her parents are not with her
4
Q
‘My city hides behind me. They mutter death, and my shadow falls as a Evidence of sunlight
‘
A
- people are rejecting her from settling their
- by going to her childhood and holding on to her language and vocabulary she is saving the memory of her city for herself and others
- the fact she is still casting a shadow shows her upbringing was positive and she still carries that sun with her
Other interpretation - the darkness of the shadow symbolises death, but that will be worth it and her life is evidence of culture
5
Q
Form
A
- no rhym
- stanzas are 8 lines long but the final stanza has 9 lines- where the poem breaks
- last line is the most important hence why different line- immigrants offer sunlight to us and enrich our society so they should be allowed
- when we get to know about the person we learn about there culture and city
