Skrzynecki's Crossing the Red SeaThis poem captures the experience of immigrants between the two worlds, leaving the homeland and heading to the new world. The poet has deliberately structured the poem into five sections, each with a number of stanzas to divide the different stages of the physical journey. The first section describes the refugees, the second briefly discusses the reasons for their exodus, the third focuses on their former oppression, the fourth section focuses on the healing effect of the journey, and the final section deals with the awakening of the 'hope. This restructuring allows the poet to focus on the emotional and physical impact of the journey. In the first section, Skrzynecki suggests that the physical journey moves both literally and metaphorically away from Europe and the tragedy of war and represents the changing perspective of undertakers. The introductory stanza of the first section immediately describes the undertaking of the physical journey that the poet implies as an escape but the journey is described in an ambivalent tone. The adjective a lot refers to the fact that there was a whole mass of immigrants and the heat implies that the uncomfortable and cramped situation of the migrants was not pleasant. Never See Again highlights the fact that these people are migrating and will never return to their country of origin. The physical description of the migrants shirtless, in shorts and bare feet highlights the lack of their possessions as they have left everything behind and their milk-white skin implies that their skin color does not suit their adopted country, l 'Australia and shows that they won. I won't be comfortable there. The description of the migrants in the second stanza, with the imagery of chains, sunken eyes, "secrets and exiles", depicts them in disgrace as if fleeing their homeland. Their sunken eyes also convey their suffering and the adversity of war, while the chains further emphasize their oppression and confinement. Searching for shores implies their desire to purge their inner suffering and turmoil while finding some solace and hope in starting a new life. The last word of the exiles' stanza implies their expulsion from their land; in fact, they actually chose to leave. The following section is concise because it provides the depressive historical context of the poem. The use of the factual period 1949 and the war / Now four years dead - conveys the suffering of the exiles and their endurance of the long wait to migrate as they were not economically or physically able to leave sooner..