There once was a country
Memory Makes it sound like a story but also suggests lose
Sunlight-Clear
Light and Dark Imagery Memory is clear and happy
it seems i am told
hints at another voice telling her about her past
November
Light and Dark Imagery represents difficult times, cold, dark and gloomy
the bright, filled paperweight
metaphor suggests that the narrator's memories are bright and positive, but also solid and fixed
it may be a war, it may be sick with tyrants
repeatition emphaisies that the speaker's love and view of the country has not changed
I am branded by an impression of sunlight
Branded negative connotations juxtaposes positive light imagery of impressions of sunlight suggests permanence to her view.
White Glow
city sounds pure and heavenly
Time rolls its tanks
Time is personified as an enemy, but it can't affect the speaker's memories
child's vocabulary every coloured molecule
this seems to refer to the language of her childhood metaphor makes language seem bright and precious
it tastes of sunlight
gustatory imagery increases the vividness
i have no passport, there's no way back at all
first line of stanza sounds hopeless second juxtaposes
but my city comes to me in its own white plane
personification of the city and her memories as a 'white plane' provides fluidity and suggests movement for the reader
i comb its hair and love its shining eyes
kinaesthetic imagery sounds like a child playing with a doll
through the city their free city they accuse me
contrasting perception she sees it as restrictive but 'they' see it as 'free'
they accuse me
'they' is anonymous, but they are menacing, and the repetition reinforces their threat to the speaker
dark
light and dark imagery accused of being 'dark' in her current city contrasting with the light associated with her old city
evidence of sunlight
positive ending like a fairytale the city is still associated with sunlight as it did with the first two stanzas