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He left his innocence and is weisel’s first glance into the horrors of the holocaust. Another extended metaphor in night is juliek’s violin. Julieks violin represented hope. A last bit of hope that withstood brutality and sorrow. “Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.”

As a child, Peter Fischl was subjected to harsh anti-Semitic laws, separated from his family, and sought refuge in southern California years after the end of the war where he stumbled across a photograph of the little Polish boy. The powerful impact the image had upon him inspired the composition of the poem four years after the occasion. Fischl conveys feelings of sorrow and regret as he recalls the inhumanity of society using symbolism, “Now will know/What fear is in/the darkness”.

In the American memoir, Night, Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel constructs a story about the horrific events he endured during the Holocaust. In the pages of this memoir, he portrays the life of Eliezer, a child born Jewish. In the later chapters of the book, Eliezer endures the tragic hanging of a pipel who lost his life for not giving up the names of the inmates that worked to sabotage the power plant at Buna, a forced labor camp in Germany. The guards forced Eliezer and his father to walk past the child as he hung from the gallows stuck between life and death. The death of the child signifies the death of Eliezer’s faith. The author used this position in the memoir to signify the end of the main character’s religious views, which makes this the climax of the book. The climax fits into the structure of the memoir at this point by staying consistent in word choice and advancing the plot further. The use of the appeals and tone also ties this scene into the plot. However, each translation utilizes these devices differently. The scholar’s translation focuses on ethos, logos, and a helpless tone. Marion’s translation uses pathos and a bitter tone. Marion’s version more effectively uses the appeals and tone because it conveys more emotion to the reader.

In the poem, The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up, by Peter L. Fischl, the author informs the reader that the world should have seen the horrible and dehumanizing behavior of the Nazis and their Nazi machine gun bullets. In the poem, the little Polish boy represents all of the Jews that were being held concentration camps and those that had to endure the severe brutality and torture from the Nazis. In order to draw attention to the inhumanity of the German society at that time, Fischl advises the reader that he would paint a picture, “A painting so bright to blind the eyes of the world” (Stanza 11) to remember the little Polish boy. Peter L. Fischl instinctively informs us about him want to make a concerto of

Poetry is the use of carefully constructed phrases used to express deeply felt thoughts and feelings in a way that flows between ideas. In his poems I Lie in this Coffin and A Load of Shoes, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever uses a range of literary techniques to communicate his profound sense of loss and despair at the constrictions of living in the Jewish ghetto with everyday reminders of the Holocaust. Through use of metaphor and the ironic comfort of the “suit made of wood…a cradle, an ark” in the first poem, and with the extended metaphor of shoes missing their feet in the second poem, the poet manages to paint a picture for us of both everyday ghetto life and the enormity of the ‘Final Solution’. His conversation with those who have been killed reinforces a concept of personal loss that is linked at the same time to eternity. This is reinforced by the poet’s use of personification in the

Eliezer’s dad Chlomo did not realize the true meaning of the yellow star and what it represented. There are numerous examples of symbolism in the novel “Night.” The title itself is a form of symbolism as the holocaust itself did not only occur at night. The author uses symbolism to really portray the story in a deeper manor. We will discuss many examples of symbolism, but we will mainly focus on the constant use of the words “corpses” and “fire” and what they represent.

The definition of holocaust is destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. There are many examples of symbolism in the story NIGHT written by Elie Wiesel. In this essay, the words “Fire”, Juliek’s Violin, and when Elie emphasizes the word “corpses” are all examples of symbolism. In the story NIGHT, the word “Fire” symbolises death.

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,

“We Will Never Forget- Auschwitz” is one of the touching poems written by Alexander Kimel. It depicts the horrifying experience of the Holocaust from the Jews’ perspective. To begin with, “Auschwitz” is an allusion to a concentration camp established by the Nazis in 1940 in Poland and it became an extermination camp in early 1942 (“Glossary of Terms”). This camp witnessed the miserable life of the Jews during that period as well as their extermination.

The poem, “Fugue of Death” by Paul Celan, and the essay,” The Storyteller” by Walter Benjamin, in the book, “Illuminations,” cover very similar topics in each of their works of art. There are a few themes that has been presented throughout the two works, one is how there is no longer room for moral right in the world because of the need to follow political right. This was very evident in the time of the two World Wars. People are torn between doing what is right, and following orders. Another parallel is how storytelling allows us to see what prisoners of the World War went through without us actually being present.

By analyzing the deeper level meaning in the images presented, the reader’s sympathy increases. Primarily, Decaul uses the beginning of his poem to grasp the reader’s attention by explaining the tragic activity occurring on his birthday. In doing this he uses traumatic imagery, such as “black smoke rising” and “artillery strikes” to further describe the scenery upon his “birthday.” These meaningful descriptive images bring the reader in creating a connection between us and the inner feelings of the soldier. The idea of providing mental images, supports the distressing activities encountered on the soldier’s birthday. Even though the poem does not bluntly tell us Decaul is frightened at the setting, words, such as “tapping” and “reminds”, inform us of how he has taught himself to stay “safe.” Decaul has to

Live your life to its fullest, if I had to mention one thing I learned from Mary Oliver 's beautiful poem, "When Death Comes", that would be it. Specifically not letting time pass you by, or letting things like anxiety or anger control your life. The comparisons to death also help with understanding the magnitude of our mortality, and the importance of not taking each and every day for granted. With many fitting and unique metaphors I found it easy to be engaged with the poem. This leads also to a lot of relevant and surprising imagery, employing a more detailed vantage point for the reader. In "When Death Comes", Mary Oliver uses persona, metaphor, and imagery to speak not only of death, but more specifically living life to its fullest before death.

Over the course of the poem After Auschwitz Sexton brings to the foreground images of the Holocaust using Sensationalism to drive home her

In the short story, “Death Constant Beyond Love”, the significance of the title of the story has many meanings. The first meaning is that death is the one this that is constant. Regardless of how we feel about one another, emotions evolved, and even love, all things will come to an end. If something dies, it is forever. Therefore, nothing can come back to life. Giving death a constant role in life. I found the title of this story to be very direct to its readers.

Later on, towards the end of the poem Plath makes reference to another set of Nazi actions and by doing so strengthening the image of death and destruction. In lines 73 thru 78, the speaker says: