Emigree- carol Rumens

• written by- carol Rumens
• child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar
• frontiers rise between us, close like waves
• I am branded by an impression of sunlight
• they accuse me of being dark in their free city
• my city takes me dancing through the city of walls
• The place is never named - wants the poem to be relevant to as many countries is possible
• enjambment

  • In first stanzas
  • Conveys freedom
  • Chaos of place she loves
• caesura

  • Last stanza
  • Trapped in confined
• stanzas are regular length

  • Man’s power and control
  • Speaker is imposing order and refusing to bow to power
• repetition of sunlight = overriding positivity