In the poem "Auschwitz", by Jack Bevan, the tone can only be described as one of melancholy or despairing. Many elements, including imagery, details, figures of speech and contribute to the meaning and how the tone is established.
The imagery and details that are in this poem are vivid and describe the situation well. The very fact that the setting is the death-camp Auschwitz is disturbing enough, without the many details that are included. The author describes this place as having "No tree, no birds in the grey air," a desolate place surrounded in "tangled fencing." This alone makes one think that death simply hangs in the air. The air also seems to be "funeral cold," which adds to the idea that death hangs in the air. The words "elegies" and "idylls" are also mentioned. Those two words would add to the despairing tone of the poem. The people did not ask for a funeral song nor did they ask for a simple, peaceful scene. They were given what they were given, and they were thankful for it, they could also do nothing about it. In the second stanza, the word "hell" is mentioned to describe the death-camp Auschwitz. Bevan then goes on to describe a horrid scene of some innocent lives being lost (lines 29-32):.
there came the endless smoke.
of many thousand women thrust at dawn.
out of the kennels up to the firing-wall,.
or, screaming for mercy to water, choked,.
their skeleton mouths under the jets of gas.
This scene is a major part in the imagery of this poem. It shows one exactly what it was like and what went on in those camps, which could only be represented as a gloomy time. The women were shoved into the fires and burned to death within the camps, of course after being doused "under the jets of gas." The women's mouths were also described as being "skeleton mouths," showing that they were maltreated and malnourished. Now, they had become the "ash of Auschwitz." The word "ghostly" simply keeps on adding to the strange feel of this area, seeming to emphasis on the fact that people are killed here, and that their ghosts may still wander the earth on these unholy lands.
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