Analysis of 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.
Scheme | AXB XXX XXXX CXXXXDX XABX XC XXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 11010 1101 111 01 1 01101 1 00101 111 10100 1011 10101 01111 010 11111 1110110011 1 1001 11 1 0101111 01100 11 11010 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 4, 7, 4, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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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