Refugee Blues

Refugee Blues is a peom by W.H. Auden, it is about a man who is trying to get his family out of Germany just before World War II, but he is a Jew.  The imagery that Auden uses really paints you a picture of how the man must have felt. "Saw a door opened and a cat let in:But they weren't German Jews, my dear, but they weren't German Jews" He sees that even animals are treated better than he and his family is.  The man is extremely lost on what to do he recognizes in the poem that Hitler wants themdead and he is trying desperately to save his family but there is no way out.  The fish that he watches swimming in the harbor have more freedom than he does and this saddens him greatly because he can almost see his freedom it is just out of his reach.