Autobiography (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dan Pagis
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Holocaust, Jewish, Israel or Israelis, Judaism, Biography, Jews and Gentiles, Middle East, Concentration camps
The Poem
“Autobiography,” a poem of twenty-six lines divided into six stanzas of four or five lines apiece, requires some knowledge of Dan Pagis’s biography. Pagis, a leading Israeli poet of his generation, was born in Radautz, in Romanian Bukovina (now Russia). A Jew, he was incarcerated for three years of his early adolescence in a Nazi concentration camp. At the age of sixteen, in 1946, Pagis, like many Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, emigrated to Palestine. (The nation of Israel was officially established by the United Nations as a homeland for Jews in 1948.) His...
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