Refugee Blues

AP Lit
Benito V.
02/02/07

Refugee Blues, by W. H. Auden


S- A refugee from the Holocaust
O- During the Holocaust
A- To all the Jews
P- Protesting how they were treated during the holocaust
S-Learning about history
Tone
-Protesting
-Sad


In Refugee Blues, by W. H. Auden, was effective on conveying his message because he is telling about how the Jews were treated during the holocaust. To convey his message Auden uses perfect rhyme at the end of every two sentences. By going back to history he wants to show that how all the Jews were horrible treated. The Refugee Blues relates to the situation in Iraq on how Saddam Husseim used to kill his own people. Anybody that would betrayed him he would killed not only the person that had betrayed but also his whole family. Hitler used to do the same thing, but Jews. This poem relates to a poem called Tattoo, and it was about a Jew that wrote a poem about his dad because his dad numbers tattooed in his arm which represents the memories that he had during the holocaust. He talks about that his dad had a lot of horrible experiences during this time. The author also mentions that he would wish to have felt the pain that his dad felt during this time of the holocaust. Basically the author says that his dad did not enjoy his life because of the horrible killings that he saw.