The Emigree Flashcards
(10 cards)
1
Q
poet
A
Carol Rumens
2
Q
- fairytale language
- childlike
- fond memory
- reminiscent through punctuation
A
There once was a country…
3
Q
- memory is inescapable
- strong childhood memory
A
the worst news … cannot break my original view
4
Q
- fondness holds her memories in place
- fondness organises her thoughts
A
bright, filled paperweight
5
Q
- unshakeable positive memory
- viewpoint, not reality
A
branded by an impression of sunlight
6
Q
- inability to let go of fond memory muddles her senses
- muddled childhood memories
A
it tastes of sunlight
7
Q
- alienation
A
- my city
- they accuse me
- they circle me
- they mutter death
8
Q
- extra 9th line
- disruption
- lose of hope
- undermines the rest of the poem
A
my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight
9
Q
form and structure
A
- free verse: disorientation
- roughly even stanzas: attempt to impose control over reality
10
Q
comparisons
A
- remains : memory
- checking out me history: identity
