Refugee Blues first of ten poems grouped together in "Ten Songs", which also includes the above-mentioned "Calypso". Refugee Blues "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. In some
The 13 Clocks to infiltrate the castle. At "Xingu"'s interrogation by the Duke, the Duke, who thanks to his spies has been aware of Zorn's identity all along, announces his decision to allow Zorn to court Saralinda. The Duke gives Zorn the task of finding a thousand jewels. However, to prevent Zorn from simply traveling to his father's kingdom, getting the jewels there and returning (which would take 99 days), the Duke only allows him 99 hours to complete the task. To complicate things further, the Duke commands that when Zorn returns, the thirteen irrevocably frozen clocks in the castle must all be