Summary of the poem refugee blues in 10 lines
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The speaker of the poem says that the current city he is in has ten million souls. Some live in great mansions while some live in poor holes. In neither dwelling, there is a place for him and his companion.
He once had a country which he thought was good and just. And it was still there but he cannot go back to it now. His and his companion’s passports expired and they do not renew themselves like the yew which blossoms anew in every spring.
When the council asked for their passports, he replied that they had expired. The consul then shouted that if they had no passports, they were officially dead. But they were still alive. They went in front of a committee to get their passports renewed. But they told them to come back next year. But where shall they go today? The speaker wonders.
The speaker went to a public meeting and there he heard the open protestation against letting them into the country. The speaker imagined thunder rumbling. It was Hitler saying that all Jews must be put to death.
The speaker was a well-dressed poodle, a door opening for a cat, saw the fish swimming freely in the harbor, saw the birds singing happily in the wood; they were all having better lives than he and his companion, a couple of Jews.
The speaker dreams of a huge building with thousands of rooms and yet none had their name over it. He stood on a great plain and saw tens of thousands of soldiers marching. The speaker ends the poem by saying that they (the soldiers) were looking for them (the Jews).
In short, the speaker is saying that there is nowhere in this world, which has thousands of doors, which takes good care of pets and which is a home to free birds and fish, a heart or a place for Jews.
He once had a country which he thought was good and just. And it was still there but he cannot go back to it now. His and his companion’s passports expired and they do not renew themselves like the yew which blossoms anew in every spring.
When the council asked for their passports, he replied that they had expired. The consul then shouted that if they had no passports, they were officially dead. But they were still alive. They went in front of a committee to get their passports renewed. But they told them to come back next year. But where shall they go today? The speaker wonders.
The speaker went to a public meeting and there he heard the open protestation against letting them into the country. The speaker imagined thunder rumbling. It was Hitler saying that all Jews must be put to death.
The speaker was a well-dressed poodle, a door opening for a cat, saw the fish swimming freely in the harbor, saw the birds singing happily in the wood; they were all having better lives than he and his companion, a couple of Jews.
The speaker dreams of a huge building with thousands of rooms and yet none had their name over it. He stood on a great plain and saw tens of thousands of soldiers marching. The speaker ends the poem by saying that they (the soldiers) were looking for them (the Jews).
In short, the speaker is saying that there is nowhere in this world, which has thousands of doors, which takes good care of pets and which is a home to free birds and fish, a heart or a place for Jews.
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