Holocaust Poetry #2

Homeland
Lois E. Olena

It was Christmas eve
and there was no room in the inn,
the Oswiecim inn,
so the Arrow Cross
took the children,
barefooted
and in their nighties,
out to the Danube
and filled their little bellies
not with bread
but bullets
flipping them
like tiddlywinks
into the congealing, icy river below.

It was the Red Danube
that night,
choking on the blood
of orphan Jews
whose little Blue faces
floated downstream
touring even all of Europe
until they washed up
on the shores of Eretz Yisrael (Jewish homeland)
and came back to life,
their little blue and white
bodies
raised high,
flapping in the wind.
How is imagery used in this poem?
 Imagery is used in this poem through setting the scene early telling the audience what time of year it was, giving them time to think about what that time of year means to them, then alliterating and telling them what it was to the people in the poem.  
Discuss the effect of the simile in this poem.
 The simile in this poem "flipping them like tiddlywinks" effects the poem as tiddlywinks is a game were you flick little pieces of plastic into a cup, almost reffering to the bodys of these people as little pieces of meaningless worthless plastic, and how their deaths were seen as a game.    
How is alliteration used in the poem? What is the effect?
 Alliteration isn't used in this poem  
How does the author juxtapose the innocence of the children to the cruelty they experienced?
 the author shows at the beggining the innocents of how they were just looking for a place to stay and they were brutaly murdered  
What is meant by 'touring all of Europe'?  it means that they traveled a great distance.