Questions Home work!!! Explain the importance of the word "Refugee" in the title. The poem introduces three "characters": the victims, the perpetrators and the bystanders. Show what each brings to the poem. Suggest why the committee and the speaker at the public meeting respond in the way they do. Discuss the introduction of animals into the poem in stanzas 6 and 7. What major theme is highlighted when the poet states in stanza 8, "Not one of them was ours, my dear, not one of them was ours". Comment critically on the note on which the poem ends. Give one reason that explains the importance of the word "Blues" in the title. Comment on what the use of contrast contributes to the poem as a whole. It has been said that Auden creates varying and ever-increasing difficulties for émigrés - in this poem, German Jews. These prohibitions against them multiply, turning them into powerless refugees Discuss whether this poem still has validity for readers today. Poetry analy​