Poetry for Students
142 Poetry for Students trees were planted in the Martyrs Forest in Israel as a memorial to children who had died in the Holo- c ...
Volume 24 143 similar to the comparison in the first stanza, in which the speaker states that he is not like “a cy- press”—one t ...
144 Poetry for Students critique of religious and nationalist pieties, and for his sharp questioning of conventional, self- aggr ...
Volume 24 145 Amichai questions the meaning of political fac- tionalism in the name of the individual. Because two groups of peo ...
146 Poetry for Students children describe their emotions in terms of the out- side world (“I love you like the whole world”), so ...
Volume 24 147 people in the work-a-day world.” On the other hand, Amichai’s iconoclastic and ironic approach to the traditional ...
148 Poetry for Students We have lost Amichai the person, but we have not lost the important critical corpus that has es- tablish ...
Volume 24 149 that country, the exalted and the mundane. In his world, wars become mixed up with love affairs; Isaiah mingles ir ...
150 Poetry for Students preparing for a new conflict while the one we were in was fading away. One event in Egypt had an ex- tre ...
Volume 24 151 orthodoxy, as that orthodoxy was embodied by the previous, largely European generation (“my father was everyone’s ...
152 Poetry for Students Let us fall asleep. In the dark corridor The electric meter will go on Keeping score, all night, Always ...
Volume 24 153 something discomfiting about this recording of one lost love after another in which the speaker never (or hardly e ...
154 Poetry for Students Ecclesiastes, which Amichai has praised as “a great, great poem of human despair.” In “A Man Doesn’t Hav ...
Volume 24 155 revolving door. A private man forced to wear a pub- lic mask, he sings of division. Yet the strain he feels in his ...
156 Poetry for Students Dicky was hit. Like the water tower at Yad Mordekhai. Hit. A hole in the belly. Everything came flooding ...
One Is One The poem “One Is One” was published in Marie Ponsot’s fifth collection of poetry in her more than fifty-year-long car ...
158 Poetry for Students consistent in her life, however, is her love of po- etry. When she was a child, her mother would scoot h ...
Volume 24 159 possibly stemming from the speaker’s own frustra- tions between her emotions and her rational thoughts. The speake ...
160 Poetry for Students (emotion and rationality), becoming one requires a surrendering of going “solo.” Emotions Love may not b ...
Volume 24 161 on her. However, she also realizes that in doing so, she will destroy the element that colors her life. If she ign ...
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