1. Analysis - Poems of World War II
... expresses the danger of total domination by 1,4,7 lines; "First they came for the Jews/ Communists/ trade unionists". There is chronologic description of how gradually people are indoctrinated to serve to the main objective of a totalitarian regimen. Arendt says, "The road of totalitarian domination leads through many intermediates stages () The extraordinary bloody terror during the initial stage of ... . The lack of adjectives describes a non-emotional tone. Sentence structure is given by subject-verb-object pattern, showed in the whole poem, intensifies a monotonous and neutral tone. ...
- Word Count: 1800
- Approx Pages: 7
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate