The Emigrée
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- Created on: 12-04-21 15:08
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- The Emigrée
- Form
- 1st person - personal
- no regular rhyme scheme
- first two stanzas contain lots of enjambement
- More end- stopping in the final stanza
- reflects the speaker's confinement in her new 'city of walls'
- an emigre is someone who if forced to leave their country - often due to political reasons
- Carol Rumens
- Structure
- Speaker's memory of the city grows and solidifies as the poem moves on
- city becomes a physical presence for the speaker in the final stanza
- each stanza ends with 'sunlight' reinforcing that the speaker sees the city in a positive way
- Speaker's memory of the city grows and solidifies as the poem moves on
- Language of conflict
- vocal is associated with war, invasion and tyranny
- city isn't as perfect as the speaker remembers it
- 2nd stanza - sesse the speaker is defying the authorities by accessing her 'child's vocabulary' that's been 'banned'
- city isn't as perfect as the speaker remembers it
- vocal is associated with war, invasion and tyranny
- Personification
- City is initially personified as being 'sick with tyrants'
- describes the city in human terms emphasises the strength of the speaker's love for it
- City is initially personified as being 'sick with tyrants'
- Feeling and attitudes
- threat that the city has been taken over or invaded by a tyrant
- speaker ignores this
- speaker has positive memories of the old city
- and no one can change her view of that
- speaker has positive memories of the old city
- speaker ignores this
- threat that the city has been taken over or invaded by a tyrant
- Form
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