This document is your all comprehensive guide to a distinction for the Refugee Blues by W H Auden poem. It includes an in-depth analysis of the poem and subsequent questions that allows you to further understand the literature.
sadness
two extremes and have place
is
→
both are still living although
,
in a
contrast
¥ t
→
Anaphora =
emphasizes
and hopelessness
↳ sense of
sympathy the desperation
↳ makes it more
heartbreaking
and belonged home is
→ had place
a ,
piece of paper and memories
merely
a
humans
Ironic : tree has more freedom than
→ cannot leave dire situation their opportunities
off
,
are cut
dead in the officials
documents aren't current .
:
→ eyes for
→ like a dead man
waiting waiting ,
persecution
Rhetorical Question
→
• lives are in
danger
and cannot wait
•
common with xenophobia
→ allusion to Lord 's Preyer →
emphasizes the irony
metaphor → Artillery (Guns etc )
the danger
→ emphasizes
Hitler 's voice
lurking
↳
that is
are treated better than
→ animals
humans
and discrimination
→
hypocrisy
freedom ( s o close but
possibilities
a re
•
far )
yet so
kind
the darkness of human
•
highlights metaphorically caged
•
people are
the decisions
→ not
governed by
of others
much space
Anaphora -
no
safety yet so
for them
Hyperbola emphasizes their
-
hopelessness
death / relentless
f → cold / danger devastation
of
powerful feeling
f- and complete hopelessness
Rhythm rhyme is ironic →
sing
-
+
song , happy feeling
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