Fifteen beds. Fifteen charts with names,Fifteen people without a family tree.
Fifteen bodies for whom torture is medicine and pills.
Beds over which the crimson blood of ages spills.
Fifteen bodies that want to live here.
Thirty eyes seeking quietness.
Bald heads that gape from out of the prison.
The holiness of the suffering, which is none of my business.
The loveliness of the air, which day after fay
Smells of strangeness and carbolic.
The nurses that carry thermometers
Mothers who grope after a smile.
Food is such a luxury here.
A long, long night, and a brief day.
But anyway, I don't want to leave
The lighted rooms and the burning checks,
Nurses who leave behind them only a shadow
To help the little sufferers.
I'd like to stay here, a small patient,
Waiting the doctor's daily round,
Until, after a long, long time, I'd be well again.
Then I'd like to live
And go back home again.
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Comments: Elenia, Steven, Maria, Bela
Citllali,
ReplyDeleteWhen first reading your blog's title, I was truly interested. The name of the poem itself, I feel, has several meanings that I felt you covered perfectly in your thinglink. For example, "The holiness of the suffering" struck me as a very interesting quote. Despite this, just as you said, the quote can be interpreted in several ways. You were able to efficiently recognize that and work your way through what I felt was a bit of a confusing quote (when out of context.) I feel that your poem also connects to what we've been reading in Night recently. I feel that after reading your thinglink and learning a bit more on the hospitals in concentration camps has truly allowed me to understand the importance of the scene in which Elie is in the hospital. Great job Citlalli!
Citlalli,
ReplyDeleteWhen I first looked at your butterfly in class, I was very confused. Now that I have seen your interpretations and your tags, I actually really loved your butterfly! You supported each tag very well with evidence and everything tied together well. All of your pictures on your butterfly are symbols for something, and you proved that perfectly. I love your butterfly! Great job.
Gr8 job. Liked the fact that you put what the text was in most of the tags. (Poetry Analysis, Butterfly Explanation). The pictures you chose were also kind of relevant so that's good. Your butterfly looks pretty neat and I liked the printed out pictures.
ReplyDeleteI like how you drew different objects in your butterfly to represent your poem. The images you included are very interesting. I like how you included how it was unclear for you t find out why the author wrote the poem. I agree, I'm sure the kids did not expect their poems to be read. Since in your poem it is said that the moon and sun are close together you put them next to each other. That was smart. Overall, your objects chosen to represent something in your poem is very clever. Outstanding job, Citlalli!
ReplyDeleteDear Citlalli,
ReplyDeleteI really liked your butterfly, it was bigger then most and simpler, but it really put the point of your poem across. In your butterfly you showed many tools used for medication. I liked this because in the first part of the poem it talked about how the nurses take care of there sick."Fifteen bodies for whom torture is medicine and pills." You also put a good point in your butterfly, about how the have pills in concentration camps. "brings the ironicalness of how a concentration camp, which was meant to kill people, actually had a hospital that gave people medicine." You don't just tell people why you put the pills but you offer an explanation. This explanation helped me to understand the poem more clearly. In conclusion I thought your butterfly was a piece of art and your explanations were amazing.