Émigrée - Context
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- Created on: 22-05-18 18:10
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- The Emigrée
- Rumen's Ideas
- Often includes feminism and femininity in her poetry
- Ambiguity of home country gives poem a timeless relevance
- Inspiration
- Perhaps inspired by Northern Ireland's troublesome history as was living there at the time of the poem's publication
- Disgraced by the pitiable conditions of emigrants and refugees
- Elsewhere
- According to critic Ben Wilson, she has a fascination with elsewhere
- Inspired by the work of Philip Larkin who also wrote about the importance of elsewhere
- Russian inspiration
- Mandelshtam - exiled due to troublesome poetry then returned and was sent to a correction centre where he died
- Rumens was particularly inspired by the Russian poets Akhmatova and Mandelshtam
- Akhmatova -protected the traditions of classical Russian culture from the onslaught of avant-garde radicalism and suffocating ideological strictures of socialist realism
- Rumen's Ideas
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