The Emigree by Tafanique Service Year 10 https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa The story behind the poem en-us 2020-06-07 18:48:00 UTC 2025-11-10 18:05:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f49b.png AO1 Meaning: The Title 16tafserv https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615554689 The Emigree is a word that originates off the word emigrate which means to move from one are to another. This normally happens to people under the conditions of their home becoming a war zone.]]> 2020-06-07 18:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615554689 THE EMIGREE 16tafserv https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615557247 2020-06-07 18:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615557247 AO2 Format: 16tafserv https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615558548 The poem is written in three stanzas with eight lines but doesn’t have any regular rhymes or metaphors in these lines. These stanzas all end with the word sunlight which is type of enjambment.]]> 2020-06-07 18:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615558548 Frontiers rise between us 16tafserv https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615564635 This line means that there is a border that rises between the land she stands on separating the countries, the borders are described using a metaphor of waves with a shore]]> 2020-06-07 19:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615564635 The child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll, opens and spill 16tafserv https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615569900 As a child her thoughts and words were forbidden to be spoken as she was seen as an doll which is a metaphor as she never spoke. Now in a new environment her thoughts spill like water.]]> 2020-06-07 19:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615569900 It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants 16tafserv https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615575838 The country she once’s live is now infected with tyrants as it now becomes a war zone country. This is a contrast to her memory of her bright home she fled.]]> 2020-06-07 19:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615575838 AO2 ANALYSIS 16tafserv https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615590403 * Use of repetition 
* Use of senses to create better understanding 
* Graphic memory of her country
* Good use of imagery through language ]]> 2020-06-07 19:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615590403 AO3 CONTEXT 16tafserv https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615596658 The poet wrote this poem based off true events as a young child she emigrated from her home country. She expresses her emotions of exile as an child.]]> 2020-06-07 19:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615596658 POSSIBLE THEMES: 16tafserv https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615607745 Childhood
Exile
Light
Darkness
War]]> 2020-06-07 19:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615607745 The white streets of that city 16tafserv https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615610189 The color white relates to purity of her home country once being pure and neutral that was sunny.]]> 2020-06-07 19:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/16tafserv/zdsrwlz68m1q6zqa/wish/615610189