Refugee Blues – W.H. Auden ------------------------------------------------- Poet - Wynstan Hugh Auden‚ born as a doctor’s son in February 1907 in York‚ United Kingdom‚ counts as one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century. Theme - abuse of human rights experienced not only by German Jews but by other Jews and by refugees anywhere. Structure - The poem contains twelve stanzas of three lines each. The first and second line of each stanza rhyme. The two rhyming lines of each stanza
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Refugee blues In this poem‚ the author have used a ballad form. This poem is lyrical which means it is a lyrics to a song. The poem have two rhyming lines of each stanza with the third line which got repetition and this develops the theme. The title ’refugee blues’ holds an emotional intensity‚ shows the critical of society which the people who doesn’t belong to that country. In the first stanza‚ the word ’souls’ shows that it is something holy and valuable and they should be treated all the
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Auden’s ‘Refugee Blues’ laments the plight of the Jews who were forced to flee Europe when the Holocaust started and they were rounded up and killed or imprisoned under the cruel regime of Hitler. The poem starts with a narrator‚ who is later revealed to be a German Jew‚ describing a large city which is home to ten million people some of whom are well off and live in luxurious large houses while others make do in slums and shabby houses. Yet‚ the narrator tells the person with him‚ presumably a
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Analyses of Audens Funeral blues The poem funeral blues is written by W.H. Auden in 1936 and its main themes are time‚ death and love. The lyrical I in this poem is a love one left behind‚ who describes the funeral of a man‚ the feeling involved and the future ahead. The poem is metrical since it has 4 stanzas with 4 lines each‚ the poem has end rhymes in every 2 lines‚ and the first and third line in every stanza contain the same amount of syllables same goes for the second and fourth line.
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How does Wilfred Owen and WH Auden communicate a feeling of despair and isolation in Disabled and Refugee Blues? By Rhys Perrin Though there are distinct differences between Disabled by Wilfred Owen and Refugee Blues By WH Auden‚ both poems can be easily be associated with despair and desolation. The first stanza of Disabled‚ is set in the present and Wilfred Owen describes the soldier’s lack of pride in his apearance in the
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| Language about war | Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro. Looking for you and me‚ my dear‚ looking for you and me | Ten thousand soldiers are looking for two people- All the soldiers are looking for the Jews | | | | | | | Refugee blues- blues music Ten million souls (religious‚ holy‚ implies we are all the same) Society is unfair on the way it treats people (some are living in mansions‚ some are living in holes) Atlas – there not anywhere close to there home‚
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“The Unknown Citizen” Analysis W. H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen” is a dark satire about what can possibly happen if political and bureaucratic principles corrode the creative and revolutionary spirit of the individual. The poem was also titled after “tombs of the unknown soldiers”‚ tombs that were used to represent soldiers who were impossible to identify since the end of World War I. Auden wrote the poem shortly after becoming a citizen of the United States. He came to
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‘The Crucible’ and ‘Refugee Blues’ Synthesis Belonging is a dynamic process‚ which is affected by an individuals personal occurrences and the relationship he/she has with others around him/her. This is relevant in ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Refugee Blues. Both of these texts explore the concept of belonging through the use of language techniques as well as similar themes and motifs‚ such as empowerment‚ intolerance and accusations. ‘The Crucible’ is a 1953‚ four-act play written by Arthur Miller. It
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“Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone” by W. H. Auden Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚ Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead‚ Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚ Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North‚ my South‚ my East and West‚ My working week and
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How do Owen and Auden convey the negative effects of war in their poems ‘Disabled’ and ‘Refugee Blues’’? In the poems Disabled and Refugee Blues‚ the writers‚ Owen and Auden respectively‚ convey the negative effects of war in a variety of ways. Through the use structuring‚ literary and figurative devices‚ Auden subtly shows the negative effects of war‚ whereas Owen does this it more explicitly‚ showing the de-humanizing‚ gruesome effects of war. In the poem Disabled‚ Owen displays the more
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