Cello Entry (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Antschel
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Music or musicians, 1940’s, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Germany or German people, Holocaust, Jewish, Judaism, Musical instruments
The Poem
“Cello Entry” is one of Paul Celan’s later poems. It appears in the fourth of six cycles of short poems published under the title Atemwende (turn of breath). These eighty poems are best read together because the images of Celan’s refined, referential poems are less cryptic in the context of the collection. The poems describe mind space. Both of Celan’s parents were killed in concentration camps. Paul was their only child and subsequently suffered increasingly from survivor guilt, a mental state of grief and self-recrimination. At the beginning of the...
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