The emigree

Cards (9)

  • Lack of rhythm and rhyme - mirror war torn home , time for reader to process their difficulties
  • Regular stanzas - refuse to let disruption of war overpower her memories
  • Longer final stanza show her desire to prolong her happy memories
  • Enjambment - emphasise affection for the city, and that the speaker is expressing too much emotion on a single line, show how terrible the place she had to flee from is
  • Themes of - danger and identity, childhood, memory
  • Bright filled paperweight
  • I comb it's hair and love it's shining eyes
  • My city
  • The white streets, gentle slopes