the emigree

• 'branded by an impression of sunlight'

  • punishment for being diffrent
  • marked
  • hot iron , pain
  • where they belong
  • hopeful and optimism for their country
• 'time rolls its tanks'

  • moving
  • peronification
  • time is destroying her memory of her home
  • time=enemy
• 'like a hollow doll'

  • filled with new ideas/words
  • empty
  • simile
• 'i cant get it of my toungue'

  • tried to get rid of her accent but cant
  • ashamed
• 'they accuse me /they accuse me'

  • repetition
  • constant occurence
• Context:

  • Rumens writes about foreign cultures
  • shes is a poe, lecturer and translator
• Themes:

  • loss and absence
  • memory
  • identity
  • individual experience
• structure:

  • the speakers memorys grow and solidifies as the poem moves
  • the city becomes a physical presence for the last stanza
  • each stanza ends with ('sunlight') reinforcing the speaker seeing the city in a positive light