Refugee Bues
Blues
kind of music that express sadness
Bluse: for the sound
Contrasting Images:
Line 2: Maison-holes
Line 11-12: Officially dead- still alive
Line 22: Animal- Human; Love-Hostility
Stanza 9th-10th: Freedom of nature- Persecution
Characteristics
Twelve Tercez
Rime shime: regular AAB
Each stanza repetition in the last tercet
Theams:
Nature and humanity
Discrimination and antisemitism
1st Stanza: city full of people but they are homeless
2nd Stanza: They can't go back (Germany)
3rd Stanza: Comparison: Nature (blooming every year) and old passport
4th Stanza: For the government are death but they are still alive
5th Stanza: Government said to come back next year
6th Stanza: In a public meeting they told that Juish are gonna still our daily bread ( cristian paradox )
7th Stanza: He compares Hitler hungry speaking with a thunder (methaphor)
8th Stanza: Cats and dogs wore treated better then them ( German jews)
9th-10th Stanza: Nature has a kind of freedom that they as human beang, haven't
11th-12th Stanza: Huge building where there woren't a space for them
Refugee
Juice wore excaping from Germany
Arriving to England
Publish in 1939 (before war world 2)
Strong political message still relevent today
Cricisism against Hitler, also to English people that aren't welcoming
By Whystan Hugh Auden
Exponent of literature of commitment
Going trought the two war criticize them