war photographer

    Cards (8)

    • poem ends in sunlight, symbolic of hope, despite threats
    • death, she's still positive hopeful
    • no identity, she hasn't got anywhere else to go, no escapism
    • her memory is always sunny, her views are idealistic, sunlight imagery
    • city is never identified, can represent the fact that she doesn't know the streets, and once she does, she'll see it's clear
    • "accuse" gives a sinister identity to the city
    • suggests she could be losing her first language, forgetting it. new country gets rid of her identity
    • memories of the narrator are bright, positive and solid -> she only sees her country in a positive light, and can not see it negatively