Holocaust Poetry 2 do for homework

1. Homeland
   Lois E. Olena

   It was Christmas eve
   and there was no room in the inn,
   the Oswiecim inn,
   so the Arrow Cross
   took the children,
   barefooted
   and in their nighties,
   out to the Danube
   and filled their little bellies
   not with bread
   but bullets
   flipping them
   like tiddlywinks
   into the congealing, icy river below.
   
   It was the Red Danube
   that night,
   choking on the blood
   of orphan Jews
   whose little Blue faces
   floated downstream
   touring even all of Europe
   until they washed up
   on the shores of Eretz Yisrael (Jewish homeland)
   and came back to life,
   their little blue and white
   bodies
   raised high,
   flapping in the wind.
   How is imagery used in this poem?
   This poem makes the story feel very cold, dark and merciless. It shows how the Nazi's treated the orphan Jews not with hospitality but with hostility. It is a very bad time for these people and it shows that you would not want to live in this time as a Jewish person. You could be doing something one minute and the next you are being shot at by Nazi German's. It shows the innocence of the children who did not see it coming
   Discuss the effect of the simile in this poem.
    
   How is alliteration used in the poem? What is the effect?
    
   How does the author juxtapose the innocence of the children to the cruelty they experienced?
    
   What is meant by 'touring all of Europe'?