1. Analysis - Poems of World War II
... my story by my faceand I who I am always alone/became a symbol of my face" (Gershon); in other words, these lines suggest the speaker's awareness of being segregated, and her reaction is to be denounced it from the "concentration camps". The poet builds on the image of her "face" (6) what she is; the fact of her race after the holocaust is another label more (she is struggling being dominated ... ) . The "story by my face" implies her race well-known-tragedy is pointed in her person; her isolation is realistically expressed in the next line; to end in a symbol (her face) that gives her t...
- Word Count: 1800
- Approx Pages: 7
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate