takes me dancing through the city walls - the émigrée
reconciling with her past memory and current understanding of the city - she tries to view the present. her city is seen as ‘dancing’ referring to her past city compared to the modern one. ‘walls’ juxtaposing identities.
it may by now be a lie, banned by the state but i cant get it off my tongue - the emigree
Synthaesthesia - blur between taste and vision. The jumbling of sense in order to show the confusion of memories and emphasises repetition the clearly clawed but joyous memory here.
