Poetry comes to people in many different ways and times of their lives, as for me, you can say we are perfect strangers. But never the less that fact will not get me out of this essay. So with my expectations low, I started browsing through some poems. Just when I was about to give up on finding an interesting poem that I liked and could understand, I came across Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” (pages 549-551). This is a dark poem about a woman and the things she experienced while in a concentration camp during the Holocaust ultimately ending with the characters death. As for the overall theme I believe “anger” would be the best choice. While reading this poem the author used a lot of symbolism to create very disturbing and painful images that
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The best overall description of this poem, I believe is found in the first and second stanza. It reads “A sort of walking miracle, my skin/ Bright as a Nazi lampshade,/ My right foot/ A paperweight,/ My face a featureless, fine/ Jew linen.” (page 549) In my opinion this passage tells me the poem will be set in Germany at a time of the concentration camps during World War II. When she says her “skin bright as a Nazi lampshade,” I believe she is referencing being in a concentration camp locked away from the sun. As for “my face a featureless, fine Jew linen,” I think this woman is referring to the hopeless look on all of the Jew’s faces within the …show more content…
A great modern day example of the Nazis and the Holocaust could be ISIS and what they are doing to the Christians. But instead of ISIS putting Christians into concentration camps they just kill them by cutting their head off or burning them alive. Then ISIS will post a video of the gruesome act on the Internet. And just like the Holocaust in the beginning no one paid attention to the Nazis and their brutality toward Jews. This is exactly what the world is doing with ISIS today, but like the old saying goes if you do not learn from your history then you are doomed to repeat
The best overall description of this poem, I believe is found in the first and second stanza. It reads “A sort of walking miracle, my skin/ Bright as a Nazi lampshade,/ My right foot/ A paperweight,/ My face a featureless, fine/ Jew linen.” (page 549) In my opinion this passage tells me the poem will be set in Germany at a time of the concentration camps during World War II. When she says her “skin bright as a Nazi lampshade,” I believe she is referencing being in a concentration camp locked away from the sun. As for “my face a featureless, fine Jew linen,” I think this woman is referring to the hopeless look on all of the Jew’s faces within the …show more content…
A great modern day example of the Nazis and the Holocaust could be ISIS and what they are doing to the Christians. But instead of ISIS putting Christians into concentration camps they just kill them by cutting their head off or burning them alive. Then ISIS will post a video of the gruesome act on the Internet. And just like the Holocaust in the beginning no one paid attention to the Nazis and their brutality toward Jews. This is exactly what the world is doing with ISIS today, but like the old saying goes if you do not learn from your history then you are doomed to repeat