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"Refugee Blues" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid-to-late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example, the meter he used in his love poem "Calypso", written around the same time. The poem comments on the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. In some later editions of Auden's poetry, the poem is not identified by name but is the first of ten poems grouped together in "Ten Songs", which also includes the above-mentioned "Calypso".

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  • "Refugee Blues" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid-to-late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example, the meter he used in his love poem "Calypso", written around the same time. The poem comments on the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. In some later editions of Auden's poetry, the poem is not identified by name but is the first of ten poems grouped together in "Ten Songs", which also includes the above-mentioned "Calypso". In abbreviated form it was set to music by Elizabeth Lutyens in Two Songs by W.H. Auden (1942) (en)
  • "Refugee Blues" är en dikt av den engelske poeten W. H. Auden. Dikten, som skrevs 1939, tillhör en serie dikter från andra hälften av 1930-talet som ofta skrevs i populära versmått, bland annat blues. Den består av 12 strofer om tre verser vardera, där den sista versen i varje strof repeterar samma mening två gånger med ett "my dear" emellan. Den sista versen i den första strofen lyder exempelvis: "Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us." I dikten skildras situationen för judiska flyktingar i Nazityskland under de sista åren före andra världskriget, och i synnerhet det kallsinne och motstånd som de mötte i samband med asylsökningar i olika demokratier i Europa under perioden. En berättarröst beklagar sig för sin kärlek hur illa man behandlas som tysk jude, ofta värre än djur. Dikten slutar med att berättarrösten drömmer om att tusen soldater marscherar fram och tillbaka på jakt efter "you and me". I en del senare utgåvor har dikten inget namn, utan utgör första dikten av tio i "Ten Songs", där bland annat kärleksdikten "Calypso" även ingår. (sv)
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  • "Refugee Blues" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid-to-late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example, the meter he used in his love poem "Calypso", written around the same time. The poem comments on the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. In some later editions of Auden's poetry, the poem is not identified by name but is the first of ten poems grouped together in "Ten Songs", which also includes the above-mentioned "Calypso". (en)
  • "Refugee Blues" är en dikt av den engelske poeten W. H. Auden. Dikten, som skrevs 1939, tillhör en serie dikter från andra hälften av 1930-talet som ofta skrevs i populära versmått, bland annat blues. Den består av 12 strofer om tre verser vardera, där den sista versen i varje strof repeterar samma mening två gånger med ett "my dear" emellan. Den sista versen i den första strofen lyder exempelvis: "Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us." (sv)
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  • Refugee Blues (en)
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