1. Analysis - Poems of World War II
... those of his own identity, and not the memory and grief of the persons who loved his victim; he destroys a life, but he does not destroy that fact of the existence itself" (Arendt 129). By the empathy with the prisoners of the concentration camps, the speaker is able to bring the "corpses" to the existence: "the unknown body which was mine" (Gershon ... 12). Similarly, in the next lines, written in figurative language, suggests the speaker's possibility of becoming like the Germans, "and found in every ... German face behind the mask the mark of Cain" ... ...
- Word Count: 1800
- Approx Pages: 7
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate