Ashglory
Paul Celan 1920 – 1970
Ashglory behind
your shaken-knotted
hands at the threeway.
Pontic erstwhile: here,
a drop,
on
the drowned rudder blade,
deep
in the petrified oath,
it roars up.
(On the vertical
breathrope, in those days,
higher than above,
between two painknots, while
the glossy
Tatarmoon climbed up to us,
I dug myself into you and into you.)
Ash-
glory behind
you threeway
hands.
The cast-in-front-of-you, from
the East, terrible.
No one
bears witness for the
witness.
About this poem
TRANSLATED BY PIERRE JORIS in 1942, the Warsaw-based underground newspaper the Liberty Brigade published the first report of thousands of Jewish deaths at the hands of the Nazis at Chelmno, almost seven months after they began.
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Written on 2014
Submitted by Drone232 on June 02, 2022
Modified on April 30, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXB XXX XXXX CXXXXDX XABX XC XXD |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 92 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 4, 7, 4, 2, 3 |
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