The Emigreé

• Key Message:

  How a home shapes a person’s identity
• Context:

  Rumens is an English poet but she has travelled to many different countries. The speaker’s original home is never named so you could make links to the huge numbers of refugees and asylum seekers who have been displaced by war in many countries e.g. Syria and Afghanistan.
• "It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants"
• "I am branded by an impression of sunlight"
• "They circle me. They accuse me of being dark in their free city."