Miiana @ Glenbrae School
I am a Year 8 student at Glenbrae School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Room 7 and my teacher is Mrs Tofa.
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Brian Bilston
Refugees by Brian Bilston
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
This poem is a very powerful poem. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
Yes because it's negative and it's keeping other people from their country, only the people that were born there can stay in that country. There's a hidden message in 2 ways when you read this.
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Some people will disagree with this poem. Why do you think?
Because in this poem it talks about negative things about people and only people that were born in that country can live there.
Why do you think Brian Bilston wrote this poem?
To tell people to stop entering their country and saying only people that were born there can live there because that's their own country.
Who is the target audience for this poem?
It's the people that are starting drama, but they don’t know the hidden message while they’re reading the poem Brian Bilston made.
If you could choose the most powerful line in this poem, what would it be and why?
The world can be looked at another way, I choose this line of the poem because the world can be looked another way for many reasons.
What do you think of when you hear the word refugee?
Something happened to a family, which means they had to leave their home country and move to another country.
What are refugees?
A family leaving their home country to live somewhere else.
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