Please help me for my year 11 essay?

Ok so this year our class started essay's for the first time in our lives. It's about conflict. I kinda get it so far but 'The Refugees' by Herbert Read is one of our texts and i need a quote and technique from that poem. Don't get me wrong i know some techniques but nothing really goes well because we have to choose another text of our choice which goes well with that poem. Would Julia Gilards speech to parliament be a good one since both of them talk about voices?

Herbert Reads 'The Refugee's' poem:

Herbert Read (1914)

Mute figures with bowed heads

They travel along the road:

Old women, incredibly old

and a hand cart of chattels.

They do not weep:

their eyes are too raw for tears.

Past them have hastened

processions of returning gunteams

baggage wagons and swift horsemen.

Now they struggle along

with the rearguard of a broken army.

We shall hold the enemy towards nightfall

and they will move

mutely into the dark behind us,

only the creaking cart disturbing their sorrowful serenity.