After Auschwitz is a poem that was written by Anne Sexton on January 1973. This poem was then included in a volume entitled "The Awful Rowing Towards God". It was publish in 1975, a year after her death. After Auschwitz tells about the anger of the poet about what happened during Nazi's regime. In the poem, the speaker talks about her feelings after seeing what happened in the Auschwitz concentration camp, a concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was the largest of the Nazi concentration camps. The speaker writes about what humans are able to do to other humans, specially what the Nazis are able to do to whoever they saw as enemy, and how horrible this tragedy happened at that time.
Poem by Anne Sexton, After Auschwitz, tells about the cruelty of Nazis that involved with the holocaust in World War II (1939-1945). It happened in Auschwitz, an infamous complex of concentration and death camps run by Nazi Germany during World War II. The complex was located in southern Poland, outside the town of Oswiecim (which the Germans called Auschwitz), on the Wisla(Vistula) River about 50 km (30 mi) southwest of Krakow. The complex covered the largest of the Nazi death and concentration camps, and its name has become forever associated with genocide. While the poem takes a setting of the time during this genocide tragedy happened.
[...] The poem generally has an angry tone. But in the end, it turns to be calmer and sad. Firstly is started with the first word ‘anger', and the repetition of say aloud' gives sense that the poet wants people to listen her disappointment. She also emphasizes some words by only giving one or two words at most for each line. Sexton uses symbolism to show her anger. As in line 9+10 and 19+20, ‘death' represents people who know and see all these bad behaviors and choose not to do anything. [...]
[...] The use of word and shows that particular line is addressed to Nazis. The use of word in the fifth stanza, on a soft July night , indicates the time of tragedy happen that claims many victims. Some poetic devices in this poem are simile, personification, metaphor, paradox and repetition. In the first stanza shows the simile, Anger, as black as a hook, . Next, the personification in the poem is, And death looks on with a casual eye and picks at the dirt under his fingernail. [...]
[...] The fifth stanza (line 21-32) is generally about the wish of the poet for Nazi will not again be given a good and proper life. Other people, no matter where he comes from or what background of life he has, have the same right in living. To raise his teacup, to write a book, to put on his shoe, to raise his chance are all simple things that these victims can never do. After Auschwitz is classified as dramatic monologue (soliloquy). [...]
[...] After Auschwitz poetry analysis Introduction After Auschwitz is a poem that was written by Anne Sexton on January 1973. This poem was then included in a volume entitled "The Awful Rowing Towards God". It was publish in 1975, a year after her death. After Auschwitz tells about the anger of the poet about what happened during Nazi's regime. In the poem, the speaker talks about her feelings after seeing what happened in the Auschwitz concentration camp, a concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. [...]
[...] And death looks on with a casual eye, and scratches his is example of imagery. The speaker imagines the death as a person (personification). She imagines the death being somewhere in the concentration camp, simply standing there bored by the same things that happen every day, scratching his ass and waiting for the next person who dies. The death that being imagined as a person is actually a symbolization of humans who give no damn toward what they saw in the Auschwitz. [...]
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