Auschwitz

Publication Instance Details #881

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	No	No	Yes	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	Genocide
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Holocaust
Languages	Irish
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	T'réis Auschwitz is danartha an dáin. Theodor Adorno.
Notes	The poem seems to be a response to the paratext, the famous quote from Adorno 'to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.' Here, the speaker of the poem argues that the poet's duty is not to grow flowers in the window of the gas chambers; rather, poetry is to be akin to a hardy bush that can weather any storm or hardship. The speaker states that time will heal any wound of the mind, perhaps inferring that time and distance make writing poetry after traumatic events such as Auschwitz easier.