WW2 Poem

Refugees

At the aerial borders, the race flee like birds

and speed through the woods in flowery confusions!

searching for heaven where kites of death

tumble from the hands of boys on holidays

Through forests, where a Puck might suddenly leap

to imitate a man or a boy’s love illusion

come these troops of nowhere going there

with half of each walking in the shadows.

To ferry sensual rivers and meet conclusions

coming a thousand ways hot summer morning

and cross bright frontiers with the eyes of doubt

in a spatial lense that bars all men from men

Analysis

Through out the poem, the author tries to let the reader imagine about how refugees were like during World War 2. For example, the author compares refugees running away like birds fleeing from one place to another. This let me easily interpret how refugees were like during that time. They were fleeing away ,fast, like birds, to other countries.

The theme of this poem is obviously about refugees. During World War 2, there were about 7-11 million refugees. There were more the one race that fled their own country because of the war. This poem communicate how refugees acted during that time.

Personally, I think that this poem is hard to read. Due to some words that I don’t easily recognize, I had a hard time understanding the context of the poem. But when I searched for the definition of the word, the poem seemed had really good imagery. The poem communicates to us about refugees and I could easily imagine how they acted at that time because of the strong imagery of the poem.