Analysing the poem 'The Emigree'
I can explore how Rumens uses language and structure to explore the impact of conflict on personal identity.
Analysing the poem 'The Emigree'
I can explore how Rumens uses language and structure to explore the impact of conflict on personal identity.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Sunlight in the poem could represent hope, power of place or an idealised version of the past.
- Free verse could reflect a conflicted identity.
- Regular line length seems to reflect the speaker coming to terms with the two parts of her identity.
- Personification likens the city to a child, perhaps reflecting the speaker wanting to take care of it as it did for her.
- The final line of the poem is defiant, suggesting that cherishing memory defies the oppression of tyranny.
Keywords
Pervade - spread through every part of
Idyllic - extremely happy, peaceful, picturesque
Idealised - regarded as perfect or better than in reality
Epistrophe - the repetition of a word at the end of a sentence or stanza
Common misconception
Pupils may not initially link all of the examples of personification together.
Explain to pupils that finding patterns in the text can be very useful to help create a thoughtful idea about the poem.
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You will need access to a copy of the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology for this lesson.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
spread through every part of.
extremely happy, peaceful, picturesque.
regarded as perfect or better than in reality.
the repetition of a word at the end of a sentence or stanza.