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Subject: SHOAH Matches Found: 68 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1905, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my father walked through mud Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism 1939, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman takes a small girl's hand Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism A BRIEF, SYMBOLIC HISTORY OF THE TWO OPPOSED FORCES AT DAILY WORK IN THE UNIVERSE, WITH INTERIM SCEN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later, in europe, paper mills Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Paper; Writing & Writers; Printing & Printers; Shoah A CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of morning we drink you at dusktime Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Shoah; Judaism A GERMAN REQUIEM, by JAMES FENTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down Subject(s): Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism A LETTER FROM BERLIN, by JON STALLWORTHY Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, today a letter from berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War; Shoah; Judaism A PURIM RETROSPECT, by W. S. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Come tell us the story again Last Line: "if only that one heart be true." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Massacres; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Shoah; Judaism A STORY ABOUT CHICKEN SOUP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup Last Line: But to live in the tragic world forever. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War AD, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanted: men: / millions of men are wanted at once in a big new field; Last Line: Take a job in the coming profession: / wages: death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism ADOLF EICHMANN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want no tricks in speaking of this man Last Line: Lord, forgive me, I can't keep down my hate Subject(s): Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962); Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism AFTER AUSCHWITZ, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger, / as black as a hook Subject(s): God; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Shoah; Judaism; Theology AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Shoah; Judaism ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 7, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London is full of chickens on electric spits Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by DAN PAGIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I died with the first blow and was buried Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism BABII YAR, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: No monument stands over babii yar Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Russia - Pogroms; Shoah; Judaism BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: "to discover the country of our waking Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons & Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Shoah; Judaism BY THE RIVERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That spring he was fourteen Last Line: By the rivers of salt. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Duty; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Shoah; Judaism CHANUKAH, by MARION HARTOG Poem Text First Line: Down-trodden 'neath the syrian heel Last Line: And live for evermore. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Temples; Historians; Shoah; Judaism; Mosques CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by HAROLD DEBREST Poem Text First Line: You see these slender tapers standing there Last Line: Its way to god and immortality. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Israel; Jews; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Variant Title(s): The Right To Life Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Shoah; Judaism; Virgin Mary DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Variant Title(s): Deathfugue Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Variant Title(s): Deathfugue Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DEDICATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You whom I could not save Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Poland - Communist Regime; Shoah; Judaism DER GILGUD (THE POSSESSED), by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He picks a coin up Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Shoah DER VIDERSHTAND (THE RESISTANCE), by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Began this in olson's words it was Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Shoah DESNOS READING THE PALMS OF MEN ON THEIR WAY TO THE GAS CHAMBERS, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I should go back to the white leather Last Line: Don't you hear it? Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Fortune Tellers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Hope; Jews; Palmistry; Shoah; Optimism; Judaism DITTY, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where did the jewish god go? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 1. WHEN WE LOOK UP, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had not looked Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 3. CRYSTAL NIGHT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From blacked-out streets Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism GETTING LOST IN NAZI GERMANY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do not move about, but try Last Line: Calling you home, little jewboy in alarm. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism HE COMES FOR THE JEWISH FAMILY, 1942, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the german came, they knew he would take them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Terror; Shoah HOLOCAUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And about burning people - Last Line: A rapid, persistent / chemical / reaction Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism I REMEMBER HAIFA BEING LOVELY BUT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were snakes in the tent Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Shoah; Judaism IN MYSTERY VEILED, by MAMIE OZBURN ODUM Poem Text First Line: Must our halls of heaven fling wide Last Line: To lose our birthright and our heritage. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mystery; Torture; Shoah; Judaism IN SAXONY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little girl with blond braids Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism IN THE CAMP THERE WAS ONE ALIVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flakes pour to the black dead Last Line: The footsteps die was he dies Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Concentration Camps; Shoah; Judaism JULIEK'S VIOLIN, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dank halls of buchenwald Last Line: Naked and questioning Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism LADY LAZARUS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have done it again Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women; Shoah; Judaism LITTLE RUTH, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I remember you, little ruth Last Line: The conveyor belt stands still. And they stood still. Amen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism MASS GRAVES: 3, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning the jews were line up by an officer Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism MORE LIGHT! MORE LIGHT!', by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Composed in the tower before his execution Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above my desk / the rabbi of auschwitz Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism OVID IN THE THIRD REICH, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my work and my children. God Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism PAUL CELAN: A GRAVE AND MYSTERIOUS SENTENCE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's daybreak and I wish I could believe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine; Shoah; Judaism RACHEL (RACHEL [RA'CHAL,] A EWE), by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We named you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: 1 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know the story. The children Last Line: Darkening all our skies Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Children; Death; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Childhood; Dead, The; Shoah; Judaism SCENE OF A SUMMER MORNING, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scene of a summer morning: my mother walking Last Line: Drifting, the ten tribes there, gone forever Subject(s): Family Life; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Relatives; Shoah; Judaism SEPTEMBER SONG, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undesirable you may have been, untouchable Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War; Shoah; Judaism SHEMA, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who live secure / in your warm houses Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism SOAP, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a green jew Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism SPIT, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After this much time, it's still impossible. The ss man with his stiff hair Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War STILL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sealed box cars travel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism SURVIVOR, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER First Line: He knows the depths of smokestacks Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE BIRD, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sang heinrich, I would fly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE BOOK, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I held it in my hands while he told the story Subject(s): Books; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Reading; Shoah; Judaism THE BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS; TO DONALD JUSTICE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years from now / they will be remembered as heroes Last Line: Continues ceasing and ceasing. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Survival; Shoah; Judaism THE GIFT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1945, when the keepers cried kaput Last Line: Is the gift beyond history and hurt and heaven Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE PRIPET MARSHES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I think of my jewish friends and seize them as they are Last Line: I sink down as though drugged or beaten Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle -- Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence WATCHING 'SHOAH' IN A HOTEL ROOM IN AMERICA, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are nights as soft as fur on a foal Last Line: We have nowhere to go Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism WOMEN BATHING AT BERGEN-BELSEN, by ENID SHOMER Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve hours after the allies arrive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism |
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