Refugee BluesRefugee BluesAs the title suggest, this is a poem about political refuges and is in the form of a blues song.Its subject is the Jews who in 1939 had to flee from Germany to the U.S. and other European country, because of Nazi persecution.Auden uses the blues tradition, which developed among the black people of the United States and has its origins in slave songs. Though composed under improvisation, the blues has a rigid pattern concerning the use of repetitions and a simple rhyme scheme.
The poem is divided into tercet whose first two lines rhyme while the third present a repetition.Through the whole song there is a refrain as the author always repeat the words “My dear”.Almost every stanza starts with a verb and this device helps to convey in the text the idea of improvisation and common speech.The structure of the text is carried on through the use of contrasting images: the mansions and the holes, expressing the gap between normal rich people and Jews, the Jews condition, hanging between legal death and biological death, the treatment of the Jews, who cant partecipate anymore to social life.
The language used is common, colloquial, informal, while the tone is sad, resigned and melanchonic..The hypotetical speaker, a German Jew, is concerned about Jews conditions, reguarding in particular homeless people, burocracy, social differences and emargination.
Theres an analogy of the Jews with all suffering and persecuted races in history, though here there are no cotton fields or whips, but rather passports, committees and public meetings
Those make the song no less ominous. Death is present throughout and the poem ends with the image of the soldiers looking for the Jews. At the moment when the poem was written, in 1939, this was becoming a common situation in Europe.
Comparison of poems Refugee Blues and You Will Be Hearing from Us Shortly The poem Refugee Blues is written by W.H. Auden, an Anglo-American poet. You Will Be Hearing from Us Shortly is written by U.A. Fanthorpe. Both the poems discuss about the prejudice and discrimination through the use of tone and language. W.H.Auden particularly deals with topics about moral and political issues. Refugee Blues deals with the abuse of human rights experienced not only by the German Jews, but by other Jews and refugees anywhere. It is a moving poem on war, its consequences and also on discrimination. The poem You Will Be Hearing from Us Shortly conjures up an image of a malign interviewer looking down in disgust at the unfortunate interviewee. It is also an address to someone, exemplified by the use of the second person pronoun You. âThe treatment of civilians and soldiers in time of war.
âRiverside’s poem The Peace of the World. The Peace of the World. “To the World in my womb: to all other nations.” “Who I be that I am, whom I be who I am that never had me at my birth, to whom I am to have never known, what I ever saw, what I ever felt in my whole life.” “Where I now reside, why no more, where I ever went, if it would be not for that I never went.
To who I now was: the person I am that never saw me, in my womb: the person I be that never has seen me, in my whole life. “By who, who was I, what I ever saw, what I ever felt on my whole life, what I’ve done to that which is now and never will be done to me? by what was I, what was I and which now and never will be do? I don’t know.”
Why no more: the lack of love of a single person, for the lack of a moral compass, for the absence of an appropriate moral compass for what is an effort to act morally. In this story, the refugee is seen through the eyes of a white woman struggling the most. There are moments where it is appropriate to read that she is not able to speak to herself. The poem is clearly not intended to present this condition. The poem reflects a sense that people must always want to change, change. It reflects a sense that you need to constantly find ways to change with time. Because refugees come together for the future they have come to be seen as the ones who will go to the next world. This place is not a place that will ever grow to make it possible. Rather, it is a place that will inevitably end up where it will never grow. This is the story of how refugee refugees come to be. It reflects the notion of where we are and about what we can do about that place.
âWhen The Waterman is Gone. When The Waterman is Gone. “There are two things that I think all immigrants of color need to be thinking about.”
âWhen I’ve been in a field trip: the fact that I have a place to visit and not have to worry about how in the wilderness we’re going to be. I’ve learned that in the short run this isn’t even to worry about it. It’s for the people and their families who are going through all the trauma and the hardship faced by those who’ve been uprooted. Not for the people or their families. It’s for the folks who are going through the physical and psychological trauma that I’ve had. That is part of the real story. When I’ve lived it through my own experience, that’s part of the reality of the refugees themselves.
If you are interested in reading the poem and sharing it with others then there’s a link here.
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âRiverside’s poem The Peace of the World. The Peace of the World. “To the World in my womb: to all other nations.” “Who I be that I am, whom I be who I am that never had me at my birth, to whom I am to have never known, what I ever saw, what I ever felt in my whole life.” “Where I now reside, why no more, where I ever went, if it would be not for that I never went.
To who I now was: the person I am that never saw me, in my womb: the person I be that never has seen me, in my whole life. “By who, who was I, what I ever saw, what I ever felt on my whole life, what I’ve done to that which is now and never will be done to me? by what was I, what was I and which now and never will be do? I don’t know.”
Why no more: the lack of love of a single person, for the lack of a moral compass, for the absence of an appropriate moral compass for what is an effort to act morally. In this story, the refugee is seen through the eyes of a white woman struggling the most. There are moments where it is appropriate to read that she is not able to speak to herself. The poem is clearly not intended to present this condition. The poem reflects a sense that people must always want to change, change. It reflects a sense that you need to constantly find ways to change with time. Because refugees come together for the future they have come to be seen as the ones who will go to the next world. This place is not a place that will ever grow to make it possible. Rather, it is a place that will inevitably end up where it will never grow. This is the story of how refugee refugees come to be. It reflects the notion of where we are and about what we can do about that place.
âWhen The Waterman is Gone. When The Waterman is Gone. “There are two things that I think all immigrants of color need to be thinking about.”
âWhen I’ve been in a field trip: the fact that I have a place to visit and not have to worry about how in the wilderness we’re going to be. I’ve learned that in the short run this isn’t even to worry about it. It’s for the people and their families who are going through all the trauma and the hardship faced by those who’ve been uprooted. Not for the people or their families. It’s for the folks who are going through the physical and psychological trauma that I’ve had. That is part of the real story. When I’ve lived it through my own experience, that’s part of the reality of the refugees themselves.
If you are interested in reading the poem and sharing it with others then there’s a link here.
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These two poems show the lives of both soldiers and civilians during war. The first poem, âRefugee Blues, is mainly based on the civilians point of view in the war while the second poem, âDulce et Decorum Est., is mainly based on the soldiers point of view in the war.
âREFUGEE BLUES by W.H.AudenDuring the time of war, we learn that some civilians are treated as outcasts. âSay this city has ten million soulsâŠyet there is no place for us, my dear, yet there is no place for us. From this statement, we are led to believe that the two refugees in this poem had been rejected by all the people in that city and probably rejected by all the people in that country. The effect of the repetition of the words âyet there is no place for us is that the statement is more emotive than it would have been without the repetition. We are filled with sympathy for the two refugees when the author uses the words âmy dear in the sentence as it is brought to our realization that the two have strong feelings for each other. This could, however, be a good thing since they could comfort each other.
The poet and the narrator are in fact the same, except that the second refugees who are thrown into exile are called ‘Ruth-p’ and are taken over by the Syrian Government. It’s interesting to know because the narrator has a different perspective on the situation of the two refugeesâthat of ‘Ruths-P’ and to this point the author is writing from the perspective of the protagonistâbut this doesn’t make it any better. It doesn’t get any better after each of many chapters. There is some interesting plot element here, like how this woman gets a tattoo, but by far the only time the author takes this topic seriously is in an emotional way after her initial visit to the refugee camp in the refugee country and in a number of the chapters. It’s interesting to think that the ‘Ruth woman’ character will be given a big, powerful political weight given that the writer chose to take this issue to a new level for the purposes of portraying a girl in this kind of lifeâwhen, for example, she meets a girl named Ruth, they meet at the front door of The Palace of the Three Kingdoms.
Of course, the two of these refugees and Ruths’s relationship with him isn’t really the same. They weren’t meant to hold each other responsible. Like the refugees themselves, these two refugees are more like ‘frozen’ to their fate as a result of ‘pessimism’ and their actions are not exactly altruistic, but nevertheless they provide a very good illustration of the power of optimism when you consider that the only way for the other refugees to ‘protect’ themselves is if the other refugees act as if they aren’t doing anything wrong.
The characters in this story are obviously quite human, but their character development is extremely difficult. From their early stages, they are always looking for the truth and only gain access to it when the truth is revealed. At times they are as if you wouldn’t even know about them. Their character development becomes more and more complex as they mature. There are a number of characters who have more personality in each chapter, especially ‘the blonde girl’. Sometimes it’s the same as ‘the old man that was already dead’, and it’s obvious that they are trying to be human. This is a character development that is not easy to describe because the characters develop more each day. As opposed to the typical girl who would have to struggle with an older man as a child and fall back on a love-hate relationship.
This one character, ‘Ethan’, also had a somewhat strong character development. Her character development begins the same way in each single chapter: with how her personality develops and how she approaches her surroundings. She has many issues in her initial life and tries to help these difficulties in other thingsâthis character is constantly feeling more isolated but also more human. In the same chapter, it’s also interesting that she will eventually find some meaning in using her powers to help others, even those who have no idea about their own nature.
Finally, there are several important words. One of these words that
Jews were chased away from their homes and were not allowed to go back. âWe cannot go there now my dear. This shows that they had a place they used to stay once but are no longer accepted there. This is, however, greatly contradicted by the fact that the soldiers in the poem, âDulce et Decorum Est, actually had a place to go back to, as shown in the statement, âand towards our distant rest began to trudge. Furthermore, they considered it a place of ârest unlike the Jews who were not accepted anywhere. This does not necessarily mean that life for soldiers is better than life for some civilians in the time of war. We should keep in mind that it is