We see a more negative approach here in this poem unlike the positive feelings we have gotten from some of Abse's other poems. I got a similarity to Larkin's poem 'Ambulances' because there is the notion of sadness and how it is society making this sadness occur. Here we see this young boy getting bullied for being a Jew but we see him stand up for himself and not give up anything just to see the bullies get what they want. 'But still it would not burst' I feel that this balloon is like a metaphor for his pride and life. No matter how much these boys would laugh and pick this balloon would not burst just like his pride. He was a Jew so he came from a Jewish family so I think that Abse is trying to show the reader how much stick that the Jews had been through and used this metaphoric devise to show that that they will not give up. You can tell that the boy is young in the poem because a balloon is normally associated with children or maybe an occasion.
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