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Refugees: A Palindrome Poem By Brian Bilston - Faisal Wajeeh & Salem Mohamed
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Refugees: By Brian Bilston
Faisal Wajeeh & Salem Mohamed
By Brian Bilston
Interpretation
Explanation
- This poem, “Refugees” by Brian Bilston, is a meaningful poem that talks about what refugees experience in their daily lives.
- When the reader reads this poem for the first time, it will appear to them as criticism for the refugees, because Bilston criticized them.
- However, this poem has a secret message when you read it from bottom to top.
Analysis
They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way
Analysis
Orange: Key words
Green: Rhyme scheme
Purple: Repetition
Blue: Inspiring quotes
Opinion
Opinion
“the world can be looked at another way”
Favorite Line
It means that you should always look from another perspective in every circumstance in your life.
Why we chose this poem
1: Because it is an inspiring poem that can change a reader’s original perspective, to something better.
Reason
2: Because it isn’t like any ordinary poem, instead, it's a unique palindrome poem that can be read both ways with completely different meanings.
Brian Bilston
Facts
Brian Bilston is called the pipe smoke of mystery. He has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter's unofficial Poet Laureate.
Facts
Refugees Facts
1. At the end of 2013 there were 16.7M refugees worldwide mostly in Pakistan.
2. In 2012, the region with the most number of IDPs was in the North Africa 2.5M people.
A Picture of Refugees