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Since i wasn't attending the English course in Capuchino High School until February. I didn't take part in the written rationale project. So i am using my previous rationale i typed electronically in my previous school as a replacement for my written rationale section!
TOPIC SENTENCE : How do Refugee Blues & Disabled express feelings of fear and despair??
Since i wasn't attending the English course in Capuchino High School until February. I didn't take part in the written rationale project. So i am using my previous rationale i typed electronically in my previous school as a replacement for my written rationale section!
TOPIC SENTENCE : How do Refugee Blues & Disabled express feelings of fear and despair??
During the late years of the Second World War stated in Refugee Blues, fear and despair were perhaps the most frequent emotions that the Jewish felt; the Holocaust was in action. In 1939 ,W. H. Auden mentioned in this poem : Refugee Blues is based around a refugee couple; a Jewish man and his wife But However, this is unclear because she is only referred to as “my dear” throughout the poem, fleeing from German soldiers, with survival and freedom as their only goal. This essay will explore to what extent the refugee couple, innocent victims of war, within Refugee Blues is experiencing the emotions of despair and fear.!
Firstly, even though its not related to the topic sentence.The word “Blues” is a key point to understanding this poem.”Blues” is a formation of slow,which includes: sad music.This poem has a structure of organised consisting three-line stanzas, and repetition at the end of each stanza in addition to the first two lines of each stanza rhyming. They were first sung by african-american slaves, and were used to express their sadness from the constant torture they endured each day. This poem follows many patterns of Blues music, which very much relates to the refugees who live in fear and despair every day; homeless, isolated, awaiting death – thereby suggesting that fear and despair are indeed significant factors in this piece.!
W.H.Auden wants us to put ourselves in the jew’s shoes , feel their emotions ,becomes aware of the emotion of despair in the first stanza in which.Connecting it up,Auden contrasts between the lives of the rich and the poor by describing what they live in:Next up this quote:“Say this city has ten million souls”,“Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes,”In these first two lines, Auden makes use of the metaphor “living in holes” – this represents poverty and inferiority. Auden also deliberately uses “ten million” to exaggerate and express just how many people there are in this city. The following line is the first hint towards the poem’s main theme:!
Following up , “Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.”!Auden creates the idea with this line, that the jewish’s is inferior even to those who are “living in holes,” because of his ethnicity; racial discrimination is one of the main causes of despair and fear as well as themes for this poem. The exaggeration that there are almost ten million people in Germany accentuates how inferior, lonely and isolated they are. This contrast of living environments relates back to the title Refugee Blues; the Jewish man and his wife have become homeless, innocent victims of war due to extreme racial discrimination; Hitler believed it was the fault of the Jewish that Germany had fallen in the first world war. This fact again presents the idea that the couple within this piece is experiencing the emotion of despair.A word that Auden uses very effectively to describe the feelings of the Jewish couple is “once”. This simple word symbolises all their lives, of what was and what is. Auden associates this word with the old Germany before it turned into a country of chaos:“Once we had a country and we thought it fair,”!
Wrapping up this poem, the last stanza summarises the poem meaning in two lines:!“Stood on a great plain in the falling snow:“Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro:” These lines summarise the entire poem message; the exclusion from society, and the urgent of the couple’s situation. The “great plain in the falling snow” symbolises absolutely no protection against the cold weather, which also implies no protection against the ten thousand soldiers looking for them; there is no shelter around for miles. The phrase “falling
Firstly, even though its not related to the topic sentence.The word “Blues” is a key point to understanding this poem.”Blues” is a formation of slow,which includes: sad music.This poem has a structure of organised consisting three-line stanzas, and repetition at the end of each stanza in addition to the first two lines of each stanza rhyming. They were first sung by african-american slaves, and were used to express their sadness from the constant torture they endured each day. This poem follows many patterns of Blues music, which very much relates to the refugees who live in fear and despair every day; homeless, isolated, awaiting death – thereby suggesting that fear and despair are indeed significant factors in this piece.!
W.H.Auden wants us to put ourselves in the jew’s shoes , feel their emotions ,becomes aware of the emotion of despair in the first stanza in which.Connecting it up,Auden contrasts between the lives of the rich and the poor by describing what they live in:Next up this quote:“Say this city has ten million souls”,“Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes,”In these first two lines, Auden makes use of the metaphor “living in holes” – this represents poverty and inferiority. Auden also deliberately uses “ten million” to exaggerate and express just how many people there are in this city. The following line is the first hint towards the poem’s main theme:!
Following up , “Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.”!Auden creates the idea with this line, that the jewish’s is inferior even to those who are “living in holes,” because of his ethnicity; racial discrimination is one of the main causes of despair and fear as well as themes for this poem. The exaggeration that there are almost ten million people in Germany accentuates how inferior, lonely and isolated they are. This contrast of living environments relates back to the title Refugee Blues; the Jewish man and his wife have become homeless, innocent victims of war due to extreme racial discrimination; Hitler believed it was the fault of the Jewish that Germany had fallen in the first world war. This fact again presents the idea that the couple within this piece is experiencing the emotion of despair.A word that Auden uses very effectively to describe the feelings of the Jewish couple is “once”. This simple word symbolises all their lives, of what was and what is. Auden associates this word with the old Germany before it turned into a country of chaos:“Once we had a country and we thought it fair,”!
Wrapping up this poem, the last stanza summarises the poem meaning in two lines:!“Stood on a great plain in the falling snow:“Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro:” These lines summarise the entire poem message; the exclusion from society, and the urgent of the couple’s situation. The “great plain in the falling snow” symbolises absolutely no protection against the cold weather, which also implies no protection against the ten thousand soldiers looking for them; there is no shelter around for miles. The phrase “falling
snow” may suggest depression or sadness? because snow is often associated with sadness and death; many people have frozen to death in such conditions in the olden times.The couple stands freezing on the great plain, everyone else stays in their warm homes, paying no attention to their lives; the couple is Jewish, therefore their suffering does not concern or upset anyone. “Ten thousand soldiers” is again exaggeration used to allow the reader to imagine the horror of the situation; the couple has an incredibly small chance to escape ten thousand soldiers, who are bent on hunting them down. This is also a form of the repetition that resonates throughout the poem (from the repetition of “thousand” in the previous stanza and “ten million” in the first stanza); the effect and purpose of these repetitions is to state the fact that it is the couple fighting against the rest of the world. This again shows the image of loss; the loss of hope throughout the whole poem!
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