Skrzynecki's Crossing of the Red SeaThis poem captures the immigrant's experience between two worlds, leaving the homeland and into the new world. The poet purposely structured the poem into five sections each with a number of stanzas to divide the different phases of the physical journey. The first section describes the refugees, two briefly address the reason for the exodus, three highlight their previous oppression, the fourth section deals with the healing effect of the journey, and the final section deals with the awakening of hope. This reframing allows the poet to focus on the emotional and physical impact of the journey. In the first section Skrzynecki suggests that the physical journey is both literally and metaphorically away from Europe and the tragedy of war and represents the changing perspective of the undertakers. The introductory stanza of the first section immediately describes the undertaking of the physical journey which the poet intends as an escape but the journey is described in an ambivalent tone. The adjective many denotes the fact that there were many immigrants and the heat implies that the uncomfortable and cramped situation of the migrants was not pleasant. See Never Again highlights the fact that these people are migrating and will never return to their homeland. The physical description of the shirtless, shorts and barefoot migrants emphasizes the lack of their belongings as they have left everything behind and their milky white skin implies that their skin color is not suited to their adopted country, l 'Australia, and describes that they won you won't feel comfortable there. The description of the migrants in the second stanza with the image of chains, sunken eyes, "secret and exiled" portrays them in disgrace, as if they are fleeing their homeland. Their sunken eyes also convey their hardships in the suffering and hardships of war, and the chains further emphasize their oppression and confinement. Seeking the coasts implies their desire to eliminate suffering and inner turmoil while finding consolation and hope in starting a new life. The last word of the verse exiles implies their expulsion from their land, in fact they chose to leave. The next section is concise as it provides the depressive historical context of the poem. The use of the factual time period 1949 and the war / Dead for four years now - conveys the suffering of the exiles and their resistance to the long wait to emigrate as they were not financially or physically able to leave before.