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Poetry – The Emigrée Ma
Learning Objective: explore how Rumens presents Learning outcomes:
Recall prior knowledge of the poem Bayonet Charge
the theme of identity and the consequences of Discuss The Emigrée, making annotations in our anthology
conflict. Demonstrate understanding of the poem in a written response
There once was a country… I left it as a child I have no passport, there’s no way back at all
but my memory of it is sunlight-clear but my city comes to me in its own white plane.
for it seems I never saw it in that November It lies down in front of me, docile as paper;
which, I am told, comes to the mildest city. I comb its hair and love its shining eyes.
The worst news I receive of it cannot break My city takes me dancing through the city
my original view, the bright, filled paperweight. of walls. They accuse me of absence, they circle
It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, They accuse me of being dark in their free city.
but I am branded by an impression of sunlight.
The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes
glow even clearer as time rolls its tanks
and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves.
That child’s vocabulary I carried here
like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar.
Soon I shall have every coloured molecule of it.
It may by now be a lie, banned by the state
but I can’t get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight.
Poetry By Heart | The Émigr
,Poetry – The Emigrée Mod
• Learning Objective: explore how Rumens presents Learning outcomes:
Recall prior knowledge of the poem Bayonet Charge
the theme of identity and the consequences of Discuss The Emigrée, making annotations in our anthology
conflict. Demonstrate understanding of the poem in a written response
Important contrasts in the poem:
The place she has come from as she remembers it,
with her way of life.
The place she has come from as it is now.
Life in the place she is now.
Use crayons, and colour-code lightly.
, Poetry – The Emigrée Mod
• Learning Objective: explore how Rumens presents Learning outcomes:
Recall prior knowledge of the poem Bayonet Charge
the theme of identity and the consequences of Discuss The Emigrée, making annotations in our anthology
conflict. Demonstrate understanding of the poem in a written response
There was once a country ... I left it as a child
but my memory of it is sunlight-clear
for it seems I never saw it in that November
which, I am told, comes to the mildest city.
Poetry – The Emigrée Ma
Learning Objective: explore how Rumens presents Learning outcomes:
Recall prior knowledge of the poem Bayonet Charge
the theme of identity and the consequences of Discuss The Emigrée, making annotations in our anthology
conflict. Demonstrate understanding of the poem in a written response
There once was a country… I left it as a child I have no passport, there’s no way back at all
but my memory of it is sunlight-clear but my city comes to me in its own white plane.
for it seems I never saw it in that November It lies down in front of me, docile as paper;
which, I am told, comes to the mildest city. I comb its hair and love its shining eyes.
The worst news I receive of it cannot break My city takes me dancing through the city
my original view, the bright, filled paperweight. of walls. They accuse me of absence, they circle
It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, They accuse me of being dark in their free city.
but I am branded by an impression of sunlight.
The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes
glow even clearer as time rolls its tanks
and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves.
That child’s vocabulary I carried here
like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar.
Soon I shall have every coloured molecule of it.
It may by now be a lie, banned by the state
but I can’t get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight.
Poetry By Heart | The Émigr
,Poetry – The Emigrée Mod
• Learning Objective: explore how Rumens presents Learning outcomes:
Recall prior knowledge of the poem Bayonet Charge
the theme of identity and the consequences of Discuss The Emigrée, making annotations in our anthology
conflict. Demonstrate understanding of the poem in a written response
Important contrasts in the poem:
The place she has come from as she remembers it,
with her way of life.
The place she has come from as it is now.
Life in the place she is now.
Use crayons, and colour-code lightly.
, Poetry – The Emigrée Mod
• Learning Objective: explore how Rumens presents Learning outcomes:
Recall prior knowledge of the poem Bayonet Charge
the theme of identity and the consequences of Discuss The Emigrée, making annotations in our anthology
conflict. Demonstrate understanding of the poem in a written response
There was once a country ... I left it as a child
but my memory of it is sunlight-clear
for it seems I never saw it in that November
which, I am told, comes to the mildest city.
