Luokat: Kaikki - persecution - freedom - nature - discrimination

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Refugee Bues

A poem highlights the plight of refugees, particularly Jewish people fleeing Germany before World War II. The city is bustling yet feels empty to them as they are homeless and can't return to their homeland.

Refugee Bues

Refugee Bues

By Whystan Hugh Auden

Going trought the two war criticize them
Exponent of literature of commitment

Publish in 1939 (before war world 2)

Cricisism against Hitler, also to English people that aren't welcoming
Strong political message still relevent today

Refugee

Juice wore excaping from Germany
Arriving to England

1st Stanza: city full of people but they are homeless

2nd Stanza: They can't go back (Germany)
11th-12th Stanza: Huge building where there woren't a space for them
9th-10th Stanza: Nature has a kind of freedom that they as human beang, haven't
8th Stanza: Cats and dogs wore treated better then them ( German jews)
7th Stanza: He compares Hitler hungry speaking with a thunder (methaphor)
6th Stanza: In a public meeting they told that Juish are gonna still our daily bread ( cristian paradox )
5th Stanza: Government said to come back next year
4th Stanza: For the government are death but they are still alive
3rd Stanza: Comparison: Nature (blooming every year) and old passport

Theams:

Discrimination and antisemitism
Nature and humanity

Characteristics

Each stanza repetition in the last tercet
Rime shime: regular AAB
Twelve Tercez

Contrasting Images:

Stanza 9th-10th: Freedom of nature- Persecution
Line 22: Animal- Human; Love-Hostility
Line 11-12: Officially dead- still alive
Line 2: Maison-holes

Blues

kind of music that express sadness
Bluse: for the sound