The Tramp Laughed Drunk All The Red Wine Time Comments

This poem is based on the poem 'Ein Weib' by the poet Heinrich Heine and I believe that was the moral behind the tale, extreme social dependence upon alcohol and the character flaws alcoholism produces. I wanted to do a few tribute poems to Heinrich Heine because he was a prolific writer and a Jew who predicted what would happen to Germany a hundred years before Hitler arrived; his predictions included burning books then burning people which came to pass. Hitler hated Heine and had his books burned, so I wanted to restore a little balance by writing Heine back into some contemporary poetry with a few tribute poems to him. I think I have written a for the first 15 of his poems on PH, plus a few others. A symbolic tribute.