Understanding the poem 'The Emigree'
I can understand ‘The Emigree’ and map the big ideas within the poem.
Understanding the poem 'The Emigree'
I can understand ‘The Emigree’ and map the big ideas within the poem.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- The title of the poem allows the poem to relate to the general experience of all that emigrate.
- There are feelings of nostalgia, regret and fear within the poem.
- Rumens explores the displaced feelings of people driven from their home country and the enduring impact of tyranny.
- The poem explores the big ideas of identity, memory and power of place.
Keywords
Identity - the qualities that make a person different from others.
Emigrate - to leave one’s own country to settle in another, usually for political reasons.
Idealised - regarded as perfect or better than in reality.
Permeate - spread through something.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that the speaker is Rumens herself.
Rumens herself did not experience the emigration that the poem describes. She may have written the poem based on her fascination with people and culture. She may have written the poem to appeal to all that have experienced a story of emigration.
Equipment
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
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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Exit quiz
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the qualities that make a person different from others
to leave one’s own country to settle in another, usually for political
regarded as perfect or better than in reality
spread through something