Essay about A Tragic Event in Shooting Stars by Carol Ann Duffy

The poem is rich in the images of the senses which aid the reader to imagine this terrible massacre. By employing an auditory image in “Babies wailing from hunger” (8), Kimel evokes sympathy. The Nazis even tortured those innocent babies who needed nothing but tenderness. He also uses an organic image in “Fathers shaken with helpless rage” (10), which depicts the complete sense of loss of control, fear and rage that the Jews suffered from.

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

Out of the 9.5 million Jews in Europe, 60 percent of those people were innocently murdered from January 30th, 1933, to May 8th, 1945. Fascist dictator, Adolf Hitler, led this horrendous genocide, well known as the Holocaust. The Nazis believed that they were superior to others, and their goal was to eliminate people who were different. Many people attempted to go into hiding, living in abandoned buildings, or with non-Jewish families. Sadly, many non-Jewish resented the idea of rescuing the Jews, because if caught, they would be immediately killed. In like manner, the plot of the poem, "The Hangman", written by Maurice Ogden, is about a hangman who arrives in a town and executes every citizen there. As each person is killed, the others are afraid to object out of fear that they will be the next. The last man standing, the narrator, is then hung by the merciless man, as by then there is no one left to defend him. In addition, in "Terrible Things", by Eve Bunting, the author creates an entertaining allegory in which the Terrible Things invade the creatures' homes in the forest and capture them, separating the animals from each other one group at a time. Fear spreads across the forest, and the chaos turns the creatures into thinking that it is every man, or animal, for themselves. Throughout both the poem and the parable, the author's use of symbolism and irony to aid in the development of the theme that although speaking up and fighting for what one believes in can be

In “Night,” the setting creates a cruel and depressing mood which helps the reader feel what it was like to live during the Holocaust. For example in chapter one he uses descriptive words that make it seem like the Nazis think that the Jewish people didn’t deserve a life. Once the Jewish get to the concentration camps the writing said “They were forced to dig huge trenches then they shot the prisoners” (Wiesel 6). That quote is saying that they were forced to dig their own grave when they arrived at the concentration camps, and then got shot and placed in the grave that they had just dug. In the writing i get the feeling that the Nazis thought the Jews were evil people because of the way they named the street that they lived on. In the text

“Still, our first impressions of the Germans were rather reassuring. The officers were billeted in private homes, even in the homes of Jews. Their attitude toward their hosts was distant, but polite. They never demanded the impossible, made no unpleasant comments, and even smiled occasionally at the mistress of the house.” (5)

The author name is Elie Wiesel and wrote the famous poem “Never Shall I Forget”. His poem shows how people can be overwhelmed and lose their faith in the holocaust. Wiesel uses a lot of hyperbole: “never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and turned my soul and dreams into ashes” (Wiesel 6). Wiesel was exaggerating how it felt at the time of the inhuman activity and he couldn’t do anything. He began to lose his faith at the time because how his god would let this horrific disaster

This occurs when the jews are being transported to the camps. The author uses descriptive language to show the cruelty of the S.S. officers. This is significant because this is the moment when the jews realize the severity of the situation.

Also it was written for those who were unable to survive the Holocaust. For those who will never be able to share their hard fought journey and are now just another number to total of lives lost during the Holocaust.

The poem 'Shooting Stars' by Carol Ann Duffy tells a shocking story of a female prisoner held by Nazis in a concentration camp around the time of the Holocaust. The poem is set in 1940, Hitler and his Nazi party had taken control of most of Europe and had vowed to exterminate the entire Jewish race. Duffy's haunting use of imagery and word choice make this poem so memorable and its very strong opening prepares the reader for the rest of the poem.

In the first few sentences, a few words define the situation as a whole. These words are "Firm", "Can't", and "Chance". Firm stands out to me because, on the surface, it implies that the Nazis are very firm, and

It brought out how the people of New York did not know what was going to happen next, when the next tragedy would occur, or if they were safe at night. This poem signifies how alone someone can feel in this state of adversity, but life will continue to

The bluntness of this statement and the disbelief that is put across reflects on this callous nature of man as it reminds the reader of the nazi’s disregard for human life at this

Iḿ not really into reading poems but Luke Havergal was once that caught my attention. This poem interests me because it talks about what happens when someone passes away. The poem relates to our world today because people wonder what happens when someone dies and where we go and Luke Havergal explains it.

Sexton’s “After Auschwitz” and Sachs’ “Chorus of the rescued”, both are two poems written with a 34 year difference about the Holocaust, with the same theme but vastly different subject matter and stances. The reader starts After Auschwitz immediately seeing anger, setting the tone for this poem almost instantly. Unlike the Chorus of the rescue, Sexton’s poem was assertive and aggressive and specifically orients itself with addressing atrocities of which men are capable of and not bashful at all in casting blame, nor in telling the world exactly how man should be condemned. Sexton writes, “Man is evil”(11), “Man is a flower, that should be burnt”(13-14), “Man is a bird full of mud”(16-17). She funnels all of her rage into these lines above,

I think if you're at the least an English major or minor in college, as I was, you're bound to come across the poetry of Emily Dickinson in a class or two. Her work is profound and terribly moving, as words flow out in such a way that you can feel the depths of feeling stretching through a nervous system that may have only just been wracked by fits and that the questioning of what GOD is or what LIFE and DEATH are have no choice but to be sussed out. There are also love poems too, or at least poems sorting out what those feelings might amount to, or what it means to be at the foot of the stairs looking at someone and not being able to, or feeling like, or whatever, going down. There's a lot of the pain, but also the joy and reverie, in connection or those possibilities in her work.