What is a refugee?
A person who has been forced to leave their native country in order to avoid prosecution
What is the tone of the poem?
Tender and melancholic
What can we tell with the word blues?
Evident musicality and it is a style that was born in a slave community
Summarise the first 3 lines?
The refugees feel like they don't belong anywhere
What are the "Ten million souls"?
Hyperbole
What does line 2 do?
Contrasts line 1 emphasisng the upper and lower class
What does line 3 mean?
Nothing for them as they are refugees
What can we tell from the words "my dear"?
Couple/relationship
How does the second stanza begin?
Looking back, reflection
What is meant by the word fair?
Beautiful
What does the atlas tell us?
They are far away from home
Summarise stanza 2
They had a beautiful country/home that they have now left behind
What is a yew?
A tree
What is meant by line 9?
They are lost, no getting back, inexistance
What is stanza 3 composed of?
A nature phenomenon
Summarise stanza 3
Implies that the natural world is in a cycle of renewing
Explain line 12
Looking towards the future does not help their current situation
What is happening in stanza 4?
They are told to wait until next year
What is "our daily bread"?
Allusion to the lords prayer
Explain stanza 5
Why there is no place for the refugees in a public meeting
Explain line 18
physically close, figuratively far
What is happening in stanza 6?
Simple analogy, contrast between free world and prejudice
What animals are free?
Birds and fish
What does line 21 do?
Echos idea in stanza 1
Explain the 7th stanza
Shows speakers lack of freedom, restrictive laws placed on the outsiders
What does line 22 tell us?
Buildings are not owned by them
What is happening in stanza 8?
Juxtaposition, Isolation of refugees
What is the "falling snow
Pathetic fallacy
What are the "ten thousand soldiers
Hyperbole
Explain the last stanza
Why they cant return home, refugees are in a dangerous position
What does the poem mimic?
Trad 3 line structure
Why is the blues music effective?
The emotional intensity and it is critical of society
What is the lst line?
Climax
What is there a sense of in the poem?
Displacement