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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 dramatizes 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.