Refugee Blues

Question 1

Background

Answer 1

Holocaust, jewish ppl were oppressed and sought saftey in other countries

Question 2

Title

Answer 2

Blues is punned upon: there two possible meanings is blues slamg for a feeling melancholy or blues the subgenre of of jazz music originating of African American slavery. This creates an effect
Rhythm and rhyme scheme

Question 3

Stanza 1

Answer 3

Diction: Ten million souls- we are the same

Parallel phrasing contrast

Question 4

Stanza 2

Answer 4

Context: we has a country and thought it fair (Germany or Palestine)= it is a recognised on the map -erasure

Question 5

Stanza 3

Answer 5

Anecdote: natural world has hope of healing and renewal

:-she explains what she means

Reality: “if you got no passport your officially dead” -erasure (stanza 7)

Question 6

Stanza 4 and 5

Answer 6

Imagery: The state is painted abrasively and doesn’t care
Banged the desk
Offered me a chair
Asked me politely to return next year

Where shall we go- they are at major disadvantage and cannot live the life they deserve

Question 7

Stanza 6

Answer 7

Complaints about refugees

They will steal our daily bread: allegory to bible. Behaving unchristian=antisemitic

Question 8

Stanza 8, 9,

Answer 8

Analogy Animals: vehicle to show how people are not letting refugees “they did not serve them” not because of lack of space.

Question 9

Stanza 10 and 11

Answer 9

Poetic dream:
Building: before WW2 (they belong nowhere) and foreground holocaust

Pathetic Fallacy: weather = mood