The Emigree
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 24-05-18 12:21
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- The Emigree
- Form
- Measured and controlled - 8, 8, 9
- Calm narrator, first person, no rhyme
- Enjambment in stanzas 1 and 2, end-stopping stanza 3
- Each stanza ends with "sunlight"
- Structure
- Memory grows and strengthens as poem progresses
- Context
- Experience of travelling in Eastern Europe and Russia
- Long-term partner defected from USSR
- Quotes
- "I comb its hair and love its shining eyes"
- "my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight"
- "the city of walls"
- "They accuse me of being dark in their free city."
- "There was once a country...I left it as a child"
- "That child's vocabulary I carried here/like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar"
- "I can't get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight."
- "there's no way back at all/but my city comes to me in its own white plane"
- "I never saw it in that November"
- "sick with tyrants"
- "I am branded by an impression of sunlight"
- "time rolls its tanks"
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