the emigree- carol rumens

• "my memory of it is sunlight clear" -undisrupted memory -warmth/happiness
• "may be sick with tyrants" "time rolls its tanks" -dictatorial/tyrannical -jarring images to contrast with memory
• "white streets" "graceful slopes" "tastes of sunlight" -innocence/purity of her perception -vivid gustatory language
• "i have no passport" "childs vocabulary banned by the state" -suppression of identity =problematic/ melancholic quality
• "my city comes to me in its own white plane" "docile as paper" -unassuming innocence -new beginnings/hopefulness
• "they accuse me of being dark in their free city" -interplay of dark and light -patterning of they is menacing
• "my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight" - the speaker is aware of the contrast between the light and dark -persistence/determination -vivid clarity there wasnt in the beginning
• themes: -identity -war and conflict -dictatorial
• language: semantic field of light (understanding/truth) -sensory language
• tone: -empowering
• form and structure: -free verse= speaker values freedom -each stanza ends with sunlight -structure from beginning to end gains understanding