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help with holocaust
Posted by: asdfg (---.dialup.optusnet.com.au)
Date: July 09, 2021 02:35AM


Hey
Do you know of any poems that are about the holocaust, from either a jewish or german perspective that have to do with personal experience? Please help.

Thanks

Re: help with holocaust
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.MCLNVA23.covad.net)
Date: July 09, 2021 08:34AM


Re: help with holocaust
Posted by: Reflection (---.rc-eres.charterpipeline.net)
Date: July 20, 2021 02:27PM

I don't know of an exact site, but I recommend going to the library if you haven't already because they probably have a lot of good poetry there.


Re: help with holocaust
Posted by: rikki (---.carlnfd1.nsw.optusnet.com.au)
Date: July 21, 2021 03:15AM

This may not be the kind of poem you're looking for, but Leonard Cohen's 'Dance Me to the End of Love' comes to mind. I saw an interview with him once when he said that these lyrics are about a Jewish couple facing death in the holocaust - and i heard him sing this live on stage, it was incredibly moving -

Dance Me to the End of Love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Re: help with holocaust
Posted by: katherina (64.49.176.---)
Date: May 23, 2022 09:27AM

Hello I know 2 poems about holocaust.There were written by Sylvia Plath. "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" I hope I could help you....Byeeee

Re: help with holocaust
Posted by: LRye (---.brmngh01.mi.comcast.net)
Date: May 23, 2022 10:35PM

Read Man's Search For Meaning by Frankel,

not a poem but a great book that you could use in a critical analysis
of holocaust poems.

Lisa

Re: help with holocaust
Posted by: jerrygarner7 (---.lax.untd.com)
Date: June 11, 2022 12:39AM



Coffins in the Sky
(Circa 1944)


Jewish ashes
light up the sky
as through the chimney,
they rise.

Pink dragons floating above
frolic, licking ashes
belching pink candy balls
as the world slumbers on


Old Rabbi’s murmur
at the fiery glow,
as an ancient people,
are thrown into the sky.

The guards pace unaware
of the chimney’s groan
at a combusted people,
(forever) gone.

The farmer’s for miles around
curse the Jewish Mist;
listing for dragon’s wings
to grow their seeds

Re: help with holocaust
Posted by: Veronika (---.213.143.81.63.dc.telemach.net)
Date: June 12, 2022 08:34AM

Paul Celan:
Todesfuge

Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken sie abends
wir trinken sie mittags und morgens wir trinken sie nachts
wir trinken und trinken
wir schaufeln ein Grab in den Lüften da liegt man nicht eng
Ein Mann wohnt im Haus der spielt mit den Schlangen der schreibt
der schreibt wenn es dunkelt nach Deutschland
dein goldenes Haar Margarete

er schreibt es und tritt vor das Haus und es blitzen die Sterne
er pfeift seine Rüden herbei
er pfeift seine Juden hervor läßt schaufeln ein Grab in der Erde
er befiehlt uns spielt auf nun zum Tanz

Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken dich nachts
wir trinken dich morgens und mittags wir trinken dich abends
wir trinken und trinken
Ein Mann wohnt im Haus der spielt mit den Schlangen der schreibt
der schreibt wenn es dunkelt nach Deutschland
dein goldenes Haar Margarete
Dein aschenes Haar Sulamith

wir schaufeln ein Grab in den Lüften da liegt man nicht eng

Er ruft stecht tiefer ins Erdreich ihr einen ihr andern singet und spielt
er greift nach dem Eisen im Gurt er schwingts seine Augen sind blau
stecht tiefer die Spaten ihr einen ihr anderen spielt weiter zum Tanz auf

Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken dich nachts
wir trinken dich mittags und morgens wir trinken dich abends
wir trinken und trinken
ein Mann wohnt im Haus dein goldenes Haar Margarete
dein aschenes Haar Sulamith er spielt mit den Schlangen

Er ruft spielt süßer den Tod der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland
er ruft streicht dunkler die Geigen dann steigt ihr als Rauch in die Luft
dann habt ihr ein Grab in den Wolken da liegt man nicht eng

Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken dich nachts
wir trinken dich mittags der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland
wir trinken dich abends und morgens wir trinken und trinken
der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland sein Auge ist blau
er trifft dich mit bleierner Kugel er trifft dich genau
ein Mann wohnt im Haus dein goldenes Haar Margarete
er hetzt seine Rüden auf uns er schenkt uns ein Grab in der Luft
er spielt mit den Schlangen und träumet der Tod ist ein Meister aus
Deutschland

dein goldenes Haar Margarete
dein aschenes Haar Sulamith


© 1952 Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart
Mohn und Gedächtnis
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, St uttgart 1952

----
Death Fugue

Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown
we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night
we drink it and drink it
we dig a grave in the breezes there one lies unconfined
A man lives in the house he plays with the serpents he writes
he writes when dusk falls to Germany
your golden hair Margarete

he writes it ans steps out of doors and the stars are
flashing he whistles his pack out
he whistles his Jews out in earth has them dig for a grave
he commands us strike up for the dance

Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
we drink you in the morning at noon we drink you at sundown
we drink and we drink
A man lives in the house he plays with the serpents he writes
he writes when dusk falls to Germany
your golden hair Margarete
your ashen hair Sulamith

we dig a grave in the breezes there one lies unconfined

He calls out jab deeper into the earth you lot you others sing now and play
he grabs at teh iron in his belt he waves it his eyes are blue
jab deper you lot with your spades you others play on for the dance

Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
we drink you at at noon in the morning we drink you at sundown
we drink and we drink you
a man lives in the house your golden hair Margarete
your ashen hair Sulamith he plays with the serpents
He calls out more sweetly play death death is a master from Germany
he calls out more darkly now stroke your strings then as smoke you will rise into air
then a grave you will have in the clouds there one lies unconfined

Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
we drink you at noon death is a master from Germany
we drink you at sundown and in the morning we drink and we drink you
death is a master from Germany his eyes are blue
he strikes you with leaden bullets his aim is true
a man lives in the house your golden hair Margarete
he sets his pack on to us he grants us a grave in the air
He plays with the serpents and daydreams death is
a master from Germany

your golden hair Margarete
your ashen hair Shulamith


Translated by Michael Hamburger



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