The Emigree - Carol Rumens

'November' - Oxymoron, contrast, darker, month she left, negative
'Once was' - Story, loss, no longer
No regular rhyme or rhythm - Irregular life, change
'Sick' - Personification of country, war
'...' - Remembering
Born in South London
'Paperweight' - Noun, metaphor, grounded, memories are solid but also fagile
'Branded' - Metaphor, marked
'Banned by the state' - Can't speak own language
First person
'I am told' - Someone else telling her
'Sunlight-clear' - Memory is bright, clear, happy
'White' 'Graceful' 'Glow' - Adjectives, verb, pure, alliteration
'Sunlight' - Repetition, dream-like
'Time rolls its tanks' - Personification, time is an enemy, time moving on, war imagery
'Close like waves' - Feels close to country, ocean between her
'Child's vocabulary' - Own language, what she was taught, bought up with
'Like a hollow doll' - Simile, identity hidden inside
'Coloured molecule' - Language is precious
'Spills a grammar' - Language comes out, uncontrollable
'Can't get it off my tongue' - Fitted on her, mother tongue, always with her
'It tastes of sunlight' - Treasured, language reminds her of country
'I have no passport' - Unable to go back, hopeless
'No way back' - Trapped
'White plane' - Speakers emotions, memories
'.' - Trapped, stopped
'My city' - Hers, always with her
'Comb its hair and love its shining eyes' - Personification, loves own country, cares for it, memory shines like eyes
'Sunlight' - Ends on memories, won't let go
'Through the city of walls' - Memories break her out, restricted in new city
'My city takes me dancing' - Personification, noun, free, city memories
'Their' - Not hers
'Free city' - Irony, not free
'My city hides behind me' - Past hidden from others
'Mutter death' - New city will destroy her city
'Accuse me of being dark' - Not accepted

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