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Shema- Primo Levi
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Shema- Primo Levi
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Monday, December 8, 1941
Vol XCIII, No. 311
What does it mean?
The picture is standing for the new generation of privilege standing behind what once was the normality for thousands of people. Painted for the new generation, so that no one forgets what came before them.
Art Piece Analyzation
Shema by Liz Elsby
Poem Analyzation
Shema by Primo Levi
Liz Elsby is a painter and graphic designer from Jerusalem, Israel. With nine paintings and thousands of drawings created after she attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts. This particular painting was created using oil paints, and currently resides in the Los Angels Museum of Holocaust.
Many poems usually contain a rhyme scheme to make them seem inviting. This author had something else in mind, as there is a rhythm to the words. In an attempt to make the story more striking, and to make the words stick with you, he also uses repetition. He asks multiple times that reader should "consider" his words. Taking into account the real tragedy that lays behind them.
You who live secure
In your warm houses,
Who return at evening to find
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider whether this is a man,
Who labours in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust of bread
Who dies at a yes or a no.
Consider whether this is a woman,
Without hair or name
With no more strength to remember
Eyes empty and womb cold
As a frog in winter.
Consider that this has been:
I commend these words to you.
Engrave them on your hearts
When you are in your house, when you walk on your way,
When you go to bed, when you rise.
Repeat them to your children.
Or may your house crumble,
Disease render you powerless,
Your offspring avert their faces from you.
Consider that this has been: I commend these words to you.
A Prisoner Rises - Aleksander Kulisiewicz
About The Poem
The prisoner rises, straw rustles ‘round him,
Poor slave he rises, shell of a man,
Has coffee only, has nothing more
Because today’s bread ate he yesterday.
Our thoughts so somber, our hearts so mournful,
The time so hopeless, so full of dread
Of fires burning, the iron furnace,
That while alive our spirit’s flame burns out.
Fires are burning, fires do burn
That while alive our spirit’s flame burns out.
This poem was written in 1946, and it's contents are about a man who struggles every day to get food on the table for his family during the holocaust. In the last stanza he writes about how people should feel about the situations that had once happened. It is almost a written warning to future generations to confront them about the past. Presumably so that they don't make the same mistakes many once did.