The emigrée

• There once was a country

  Fantasy / fairytale recalling
• I left as a child


  May be unaware of war
• My memory of it is Sunlight clear

  Bright positive memories
• Cannot break my original view


  They are powerful and can defy the dark environment
• Sick with tyrants


  Personification, her home is another victim of war
• Sunlight


  Light imagery
• Graceful slopes


  Jextoposition of memories and war
• Time rolls its tanks


  Shows that war is relentless and repetative
• Vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll

  Feels empty without home

  child like innocence
• i Have no passport, there’s no way back at all


  So closely linked to identity

  returns home through her memories
• I comb its hair and love its shining eyes

  Treats her country with respect and love
• they accuse me of absence, they circle me. They accuse me of being dark in their free city

  Ironic as it isn’t free, they is power to the unknown
• my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight


  Has lowest her sunlight as she has been taken away from the source of her light and happines
• light motif


  Signifies her optimism
• Free verse


  Chaotic homelife and experiences
• Key themes


  • loss
  • identity
  • pride
  • effects of war
• Comparison poems


  • checkin out me history
  • tissue
  • remains
  • poppies
  • war photographer