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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WARSAW GHETTO Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOUT MY FATHER, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He became a teetotaler out of his socialist convictions, during Last Line: And wounded, but got back to warsaw alive %he believed in resistance Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Fathers; Warsaw Ghetto ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The three girls in a donkey cart Last Line: Of death is instant, contrived. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Girls; Lament; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii - Atrocities; Dead, The HISTORY TEACHER IN THE WARSAW GHETTO RISING, by EVANGELINE PATERSON Poem Source First Line: The schoolmaster once known as %umbrella feet Last Line: Towards the last ten minutes %of their own history Subject(s): History; Warsaw Ghetto HOUSE THAT FEAR BUILT: WARSAW, 1943, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy with his hands raised over his head %in warsaw Last Line: Over every street in this world %muttering %waht's this? What's this? Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii I REMEMBER COMING INTO WARSAW, A CHILD, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Out of sheer, sunlit countryside Last Line: And willing their sounding and resounding remains Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Warsaw Ghetto LETTERS FROM THE GHETTO, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY Poem Source First Line: Your brief letters Last Line: That will inscribe the blankness with mercy Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto POOR CHRISTIAN LOOKS AT THE GHETTO, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bees build around red liver Last Line: And he will count me among the helpers of death: %the uncircumcised Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Warsaw Ghetto RESISTANCE IN THE GHETTO, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were starving Last Line: We are beautiful, proud, %radiant jews Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto SEARCHING FOR MY FATHER'S BODY, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As he sleeps leaning against a tombstone %and dreams, never considering %where he himself will one d Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Fathers; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii STONE AND THE BLADE OF GRASS IN THE WARSAW GHETTO, by DAVID SCHEINERT Poem Source First Line: And the stranger at last stood before the monument of lava and anger Last Line: A blade of grass was then born, an immortal springtime! Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto THE HOUSE THAT FEAR BUILT: WARSAW, 1943, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy with his hands raised over his head / in warsaw Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii; Second World War WARSAW GHETTO, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: Bodies swollen %from hunger Last Line: Only rats in the daylight %take care %of the remains Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto WIDOW AND DAUGHTER, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The widow %a shadow of the wife rose Last Line: Hero and betrayer %legeng and deserter-- %so when they sat down to eat %they couls taste his ashes Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Warsaw Ghetto |
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