Political Refugees

This is a poem about political refugees and how the Germany's had treat the Jews. The Jews who were forced to flee Europe when the Holocaust started and they were rounded up and killed or imprisoned under cruel regime of Hitler. The structure of the text is carried on through the use of contrasting images: the treatment of the Jews. The language used is common, informal, while the tone is sad. Jews were chased away from their homes and were not allowed to go back.The structure of the text is carried on through the use of contrasting images: the mansions and the holes, expressing the gap between normal rich people and Jews, the Jews' condition, hanging between legal death and biological death, the treatment of the Jews, who can't partecipate anymore to social life.Almost every stanza starts with a verb and this device helps to convey in the text the idea of improvisation and common speech.There's an analogy of the Jews with all suffering and persecuted races in history, though here there are no cotton fields or whips, but rather passports, committees and public meetings.During the time of war, we learn that some civilians