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Refugee blues by W H auden

Refugee blues by W H auden. Min su lee. Learning objectives. What is happening in the poem? What poetic devices is this poem using? What is the poem trying to bring our attention to?. title – Refugee blues.

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Refugee blues by W H auden

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  1. Refugee bluesby W H auden Min su lee

  2. Learning objectives • What is happening in the poem? • What poetic devices is this poem using? • What is the poem trying to bring our attention to?

  3. title – Refugee blues • Refugee: a person who have escaped from their own country due to political, religious or economic reasons. • Blues: a genre of a music which mostly demonstrates the sadness or depression and also used to describe how sad a person is. • Putting them together, Refugee blues describes us that the poem is not going to be happy but deep and its about a person who has escaped from the country

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  5. Refugee blues • A family of German Jews slowly becoming refugees as they go from situation to situation trying to find asylum • Because the poet is a man, I assume that the poem is written by the perspective of a husband talking to his wife but it could just as easily be the other way around or even a parent talking to their child.

  6. Structure • 12 stanzas with 3 lines each • AAB rhyme scheme • Repetition of phrase in every last line of a stanza • The repetition emphasizes the depression of the German Jews

  7. meaning • The most important topic in this poem is discrimination. “Went to a committee”, “Came to a public meeting.” When we go to committee or a public meeting, people there will try to encourage you to be more comfortable and also inclusive, but because they are German Jews, they are kicked out and excluded. • Discriminations to German Jews had lead up to the situation which they are not welcomed anywhere or do not have a space to stay, where animals are treated better than them.

  8. meaning • It makes you feel sorry for them and also it makes you to appreciate your situation at least how you have a place to sleep. Introducing the living conditions of German Jews specifically, while I was reading, it made me depressed and sad just like the title “blues” is a genre of a song that expresses the depression.

  9. Image & Language • No similes, metaphors and personification used in this poem • No alliteration or assonance is used in this poem • The use of certain words have symbolism attracted to them such as • Holes, churchyard, next year, daily bread, thunder rumbling • “Once we had a country we thought it fair” – syllables

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