emigree - quotes + structure

• B M O I I S C ... I N S I I T N W I A T C T T M C

  • metaphor of sunlight → happiness, positivity warmth. Pathetic fallacy - to show how the speakers mem of her country brings her comfort
  • 'sun' powerful force, nothing can shake her light filled impression of the perfect place she has left. shows the longlasting power places can have on a person
  • 'November' - late autumn - gloomy weather - metaphor for the conflict
  • 'I A T' - creates separation between hers + other beliefs. she disagrees with others opinions
  • 'mildest city' - disaster can strike anywhere even if they dont deserve it .
• I M B A W I M B S W T B I A B B A I O S


  it may be at war it may be sick with tyrants but i am branded by a impression of sunlight
• I M B A W I M B S W T B I A B B A I O S

  • 'may' - modal verb - dismissive of criticisms to her country - defensive tone + delusional. implies doubt not accepting any possibility of her country's flaws
  • 'sick' - personification - sympathetic tone, her country needs healing not criticism
  • 'sunlight' - repetition - her dream like image of the past
  • 'branded' - metaphor - country left a great impact on her - integral part of her identity. her positive memory's cant be erased. branded by society as an outsider, she doesn't belong
• T A O B A, T C M. T A M O B D I T F C

  they accuse me of absence, they circle me. they accuse me of being dark in their free city.
• T A O B A, T C M. T A M O B D I T F C

  • 'they'- pronoun - plural- outnumbered, victim, doesnt belong. they is deliberately undefined. repetition of 'they' - rule of 3 - menacing, she is being targeted.
  • 'circle' -verb- predators waiting to attack
  • 'dark' - racism. connotations of dark → evil
  • cesura - she is broken bc of her displacement
• structure 


  no rhyme - free verse - representative of the freedom she wants.