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GCSE Poetry- The Emigree - Coggle Diagram
GCSE Poetry- The Emigree
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Relevant Points
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The spelling of the word Rumens chooses- 'emigree'- is a feminine form and suggests the speaker of the poem is a woman
A displaced person pictures the country and the city where he/she was born. Neither the city nor the country is ever named and this lack of specific detail seems intentional (deliberate). Rumens wants her poem to be relevant to as many people who have left their homelands as possible
War-torn, or under the control of a dictational government that has banned the language the speaker once knew. Despite this, nothing shakes the light-filled impression of a perfect place that the emigree's childhood memories have left. This shows the power that places can have, even over people who have left them long ago and who have never revisited since. A clear sense of fondness for the place, there is also a more threatening tone in the poem, suggesting perhaps that the relationship with the past and with this place is not necessarily positive for the speaker
Form
First person- describes a personal experience, but other emigrants could relate to the narrative
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Starts with enjambment, but by the end there are lots of end stopped lines- symbolises the speaker's feelings of confinement in her new city
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Recap Points
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Carol Rumens has travelled extensively= lived in Belfast and Wales, travelled to Russia and Eastern Europe
Caesura- "..." slows down- creates chaos, lacks flow, reflection
As time passes, her view of it brightens- "white"
Stanza 1= 8 lines, stanza 3= 9 lines- speaker trying to impose order
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Last stanza is the longest= explores her love, she doesn't want to leave
Left country as a child- never saw it in a bad light, always thinks positively
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Carol Rumens
Carol Rumens wrote 'The Emigree' in 1993 at a time when there was widespread conflict around the world
By 1993, 18.2 million men, women, and children across the world had left their homelands to escape war
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Quick Summary
The speaker has to leave her country due to her war-torn country. She is deluded to it's true nature