Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Emigree -
Carol Rumens
- 'November' - Oxymoron,
contrast, darker, month
she left, negative
- 'Once was' - Story, loss, no longer
- No regular rhyme or rhythm
- Irregular life, change
- 'Sick' - Personification of country, war
- '...' - Remembering
- Born in South London
- 'Paperweight' - Noun, metaphor, grounded,
memories are solid but also fagile
- 'Branded' - Metaphor, marked
- 'Banned by the
state' - Can't speak
own language
- First person
- 'I am told' - Someone
else telling her
- 'Sunlight-clear' - Memory
is bright, clear, happy
- 'White' 'Graceful' 'Glow' - Adjectives,
verb, pure, alliteration
- 'Sunlight' - Repetition, dream-like
- 'Time rolls its tanks' - Personification, time is an
enemy, time moving on, war imagery
- 'Close like waves' - Feels close to
country, ocean between her
- 'Child's vocabulary' - Own
language, what she was
taught, bought up with
- 'Like a hollow doll' - Simile,
identity hidden inside
- 'Coloured molecule' -
Language is precious
- 'Spills a grammar' -
Language comes out,
uncontrollable
- 'Can't get it off my tongue' - Fitted on
her, mother tongue, always with her
- 'It tastes of sunlight' - Treasured,
language reminds her of country
- 'I have no passport' -
Unable to go back, hopeless
- 'No way back'
- Trapped
- 'White plane' -
Speakers emotions,
memories
- '.' - Trapped, stopped
- 'My city' - Hers,
always with her
- 'Comb its hair and love its
shining eyes' - Personification,
loves own country, cares for it,
memory shines like eyes
- 'Sunlight' - Ends on
memories, won't let go
- 'Through the city of walls' - Memories
break her out, restricted in new city
- 'My city takes me
dancing' - Personification,
noun, free, city memories
- 'Their' - Not hers
- 'Free city' - Irony, not free
- 'My city hides behind me'
- Past hidden from others
- 'Mutter death' - New city will
destroy her city
- 'Accuse me of being
dark' - Not accepted