The Emigree

• context

  • left her country as a child due to war
  • fondly looks back at memories
• themes

  • power of memory
  • identity
  • individual experience
• " the bright filled paper weight "
• " the bright filled paper weight "

  • happy memories
  • metaphor
  • she can see but not visit or hold
  • can see it clearly but it is ever so slightly out of reach
• " i have no passport , there's no way back at all "
• " it may be at war , it may be sick with tyrants but my country comes to me on a white plane "
• " it may be at war , it may be sick with tyrants but my country comes to me on a white plane "

  • fighting / violence has taken over
  • doesn't care what has changed her opinion is unchanging
  • controlled and oppressed
  • purity and innocence trying to be maintained
• comparisons

  • poppies
  • kamikaze
  • checking out me history