Six of the Best Poems about Refugees - Interesting Literature.
As a poem, “Refugee Blues” captures the true feelings of refugees, through the plight of German Jews escaping Hitler’s Germany, reminding one of the extent to which humanity can fall. The title “Refugee Blues” presents more than the melancholy, blue, mood associated with the story of German Jewish refugees escaping Hitler’s reign; it mirrors the form and essence of a musical.
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The poem “Home” by Warsan Shire speaks out for refugees by describing the unthinkable and difficult decisions refugees are forced to make on a daily basis. Shire employs personification and second person techniques in order to portray the idea that no one wants to be forced out of their own home, yet every day, we seem oblivious to the millions who are being displaced in Syria due to the.
About “Refugee Blues” In this poem Auden uses as a template the blues tradition, which developed in Black communities in the United States and has its origins in slave songs.
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We never got hurt by anything, and the family that stayed were all fine, but we left because we were and are still wary of what might happen to us if we had stayed, or even if we go back. After reading this poem, I think to myself, what if we had stayed and this happened to us? We would have been refugees too.
These poems are based on the novel Inside Out And Back Again by Thannha Lai and preceded by students writing an essay introducing the concepts of the universal refugee experience during EL Education’s Grade 8 ELA, Module 1, Unit 3. The novel is written in free verse poetry form and is told from the perspective of a young Vietnamese refugee.