The Emigree

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  • Created by: Brakabopa
  • Created on: 10-04-17 15:04
Context
Carol Rumens is an English poet, lecturer and translator. She has published over fifteen collections of poetry, as well as several novels and plays.
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"The bright, filled paperweight"
Metaphor- suggests that the narrator's memories are bright and positive, but also solid and fixed.
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"White...glow"
The description makes the 'city' sound pure, almost like heven
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"Time rolls its tanks"
Time is personified as an enemy, but it can't affect the speaker's memories.
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"I comb its hair and love its shining eyes"
There's a childlike joy in this description- it sounds like a child playing with a pet.
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Card 2

Front

Metaphor- suggests that the narrator's memories are bright and positive, but also solid and fixed.

Back

"The bright, filled paperweight"

Card 3

Front

The description makes the 'city' sound pure, almost like heven

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Time is personified as an enemy, but it can't affect the speaker's memories.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

There's a childlike joy in this description- it sounds like a child playing with a pet.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5

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