Question

I need help answering/checking these questions/answers (: Thank you!

Answer 1

TEREZIN

That bit of filth in dirty walls,
And all around barbed wire,
And thirty-thousand souls who sleep
Who once will wake
And once will see
Their own blood spilled.

I was once a little child,
Three years ago.
That child who longed for other worlds.
But now I am no more a child
For I have learned to hate.
I am a grown-up person now,
I have known fear.

Bloody words and a dead day then,
That's something different than boogie men!

But anyway, I still believe I only sleep today,
That I'll wake up, a child again,
and start to laugh and play.
I'll go back to childhood sweet like a briar rose,
Like a bell which wakes us from a dream,
Like a mother with an ailing child
Loves him with aching woman's love.
How tragic then, is youth which lives
With enemies, with gallows ropes,
How tragic, then, for children on your lap
To say: this for the good, that for the bad.

Somewhere, far away out there, childhood sweetly sleeps,
Along that path among the trees,
There o'er that house
Which was once my pride and joy.
There my mother gave me birth into this world
So I could weep...

In the flame of candles by my bed, I sleep
And once perhaps I'll understand
That I was such a little thing,
As little as this song.

These thirty-thousand souls who sleep
Among the trees will wake,
Open an eye
And because they see
A lot

They'll fall asleep again...

--Michael Flack, 1944


That's the poem.

Here are the questions (the one blank I need help on)

1. Who is speaking in the poem?
The person speaking in the poem is an adult thinking about his lost childhood.

2. To whom is that speaker speaking?



3. What is the poem talking about?
The poem is talking about how the speaker lost his childhood because of the Holocaust.


4. Do you think the author of this poem is a survivor of the Holocaust? If so, what makes you think that?

Answer 2

ok so number 1 is correct and number two would just mean who is the speaker talking to about what happend. number three is correct and number four would be yes, and state in your own words why it would be yes cause im not allowed to give answers but i help you with part of the last qeustion.

Answer 3

hopefully this helps :)

Answer 4

Thanks @lilkittykat36 I'm just not sure (for number 2) who he would be speaking to :/ it doesn't give any hints as far as I know..

Answer 5

4. Do you think the author of this poem is a survivor of the Holocaust? If so, what makes you think that?
Yes, I think that the author of this poem is a survivor of the Holocaust. I think so because he describes how the speaker has lost his childhood with such passion that you can almost feel the deep sadness that the poem holds.
That's my answer for #4, what do you think?

Answer 6

well think about the tone of the peom is it formal informal things like that reread the peom over a couple times and it will eventually come to you
and number four looks great

Answer 7

Okay, thanks! :D Could you look over some of the other questions I have?

Answer 8

sure
tag me in them and i will take a look

Answer 9

Thanks :D

Answer 10

Np
^_^

Answer 11

1. Who is speaking in the poem?
The person speaking in the poem is an adult thinking about his lost childhood.

2. To whom is that speaker speaking?
The speaker is speaking to a friend or a relative as the poem is not formally written but rather relaxed as if they were comfortable with the person, but not as if they were being interviewed.


3. What is the poem talking about?
The poem is talking about how the speaker lost his childhood because of the Holocaust.


4. Do you think the author of this poem is a survivor of the Holocaust? If so, what makes you think that?
Yes, I think that the author of this poem is a survivor of the Holocaust. I think so because he describes how the speaker has lost his childhood with such passion that you can almost feel the deep sadness that the poem holds.


5. Do you recognize any figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification)?
I recognize some figurative language in the poem when the author uses “as” when he wrote, “That I was such a little thing, As little as this song.”, I'll go back to childhood sweet like a briar rose,” and “Like a mother with an ailing child” which are all similes, a type of figurative language.


6. Examples of imagery.
An example of imagery from the poem is, “That bit of filth in dirty walls, And all around barbed wire,” which helps the reader picture dirty walls and barbed wire around these walls. Another example of imagery from the poem is, “Like a bell which wakes us from a dream,” which allows the reader to imagine hearing a bell (or alarm) that would cause us to be awoken out of a dream. One last example of imagery from the poem is, “And once will see
Their own blood spilled.” this sentence helps the reader’s mind capture the scene of blood being spilled as a way for the reader to understand what it is happening.

A couple of examples of imagery are statements such as, “Billy’s face was as red as a tomato”, “Gregory’s toe turned as purple as a plum”, and “Jean’s face was as white as a sheet”.*



7. Can you identify any symbols?
Some symbols I can identify in the poem is


8. Do you detect any irony?
I detect irony in the fifth stanza where the author wrote,
“Along that path among the trees,
There o'er that house
Which was once my pride and joy.
There my mother gave me birth into this world
So I could weep...”, the very place where his mother brought him into the world, where he used to find such happiness and pride, he feels as if he could cry when he thinks about it.

9. Compare and contrast your poem to “The Butterfly.” Do you see any similarities in theme, figurative language, imagery, symbols, or irony? If you’d like, you could also compare and contrast to the other poems as well.


Here are all the questions, I need help on #7 and #9, if you want me to repost the poem I can, here's the Butterfly poem :) Thanks again @lilkittykat36

The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
against a white stone…
Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ‘way up high.
It went away I'm sure because it wished to
kiss the world goodbye.
For seven weeks I've lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto
But I have found my people here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut candles in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don't live in here,
In the ghetto

Answer 12

For #9 this is what I have so far: A similarity I see in theme between “The Butterfly” by Pavel Friedmann and “Terizen” by Michael Flack is they are both about the Holocaust and the ghetto in which they were kept.

Answer 13

yes and that is a good start now name a diffrence and you should be good with that question

Answer 14

and im not quit sure about number 7

Answer 15

I don't really see any symbols in the poem >.< and how's this for #9: A similarity I see between “The Butterfly” by Pavel Friedmann and “Terizen” by Michael Flack is they have the same theme which is about the Holocaust and the ghetto in which they were kept. A difference between “The Butterfly” by Pavel Friedmann and “Terizen” by Michael Flack is that Michael Flack’s “Terizen” poem is more relaxed while Pavel Friedmann’s poem “The Butterfly” has more of a formal air to it.

Answer 16

i wouldnt use the tone of them as a diffrence i would use something about how they are writen like one is a little bit lighter while the other has a more darker air to it

Answer 17

A similarity I see between “The Butterfly” by Pavel Friedmann and “Terizen” by Michael Flack is they have the same theme which is about the Holocaust and the ghetto in which they were kept. A difference between “The Butterfly” by Pavel Friedmann and “Terizen” by Michael Flack is that Michael Flack’s “Terizen” poem is has a more darker air while Pavel Friedmann's "The Butterfy" has a lighter air.

Answer 18

that is alot better it should work

Answer 19

Thanks :D

Answer 20

No problem glad i could help ^_^

Answer 21

Alright for number seven...the thirty thousand souls symbolise the people that were killed I think

Answer 22

yes that would be i good one

Answer 23

Awseome :D 7. Can you identify any symbols?
A symbol I can identify in the poem is how the “thirty-thousand souls” mentioned in the poem that “once will see Their own blood spilled.” could symbolize some of the souls killed in the ghettos.

Answer 24

@lilkittykat36

Answer 25

change souls to people*

Answer 26

no i think it was better the way you had it before

Answer 27

In the poem "Terizen", the thirty thousand souls mentioned in the fifth stanza symbolise the people that were killed in the ghettos. Like that?

Answer 28

yes that is better its not a run on like the last one was

Answer 29

Great :D Thank you!

Answer 30

Alright, I'm just going to proofread and send it in :3

Answer 31

ok i hope you do well on it and i hope i was able to you

Answer 32

I'm quite sure you were! :D I appreciate this so much, I wish I could give you another medal >.<

Answer 33

help you

Answer 34

lol its ok im good for now but if you need any more help mention me in your post andif im online i will help as best as i can but if im not on then i will help as soon as i got on ok have a nice day

Answer 35

Thanks! You too! :D