Dan'sNightPoemExplanation

Living through the Holocaust was bad enough. As I was reading //Night// by Elie Weisel, I noticed that he included a lot of irony in his descriptions, which I find very interesting to know. In my poem, “WRITE THE POEM TITLE HERE,” I tried to emphasize why the irony was so powerful under the circumstances. Mostly, I tried to use more powerful words in my poem so that when I included irony, it would stand out to the reader. For instance, when I said “’Work or crematorium,’” I followed that with “Work makes you free.” There was really no need for the Nazis to put that on a sign, because for the Jews, working meant that you could live longer. There were several important phrases in my poem, including “Every bomb that hit filled us with joy.” This adds to my irony theme, but it also makes the overall poem more powerful. It surprised me that the Holocaust progressed to a point that made people happy to see the Germans being bombed. A second phrase that is important is “We no longer feared death.” This has a similar effect that the previous phrase has, but I included it with phrases like “standing apart” and “abandoned,” which meant that they were not afraid to be different, in a way. One crafting technique I used was I wrote “standing apart” with space in between to add visual effect. Also, it stands out from a glance, making the phrase more meaningful. Some punctuation I used for effect was in the beginning when I added an ellipsis after “work or crematorium.” It allowed the line to be suspended until the ironic statement after it. Also, I purposely did not add a period at the end of the third stanza because I wanted the word “abandoned” to almost hang in midair, again adding effect. In his interview with Oprah, they both agreed that irony was significant in the Holocaust. And I agree with this as well. He will never forget his experiences, and the irony that he encountered made it engraved in him even more.