Has anyone read this new collection of poems by Annie Freud? (yes, she is a relative - er, not of me, but of Lucian and Sigmund)
Here is alink to the title poem:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetrya...do?poemId=8336
Apparently the man is question is Hitler which to be honest turns my stomach.
Firstly, is it Hitler? I suppose there are the references to the Party rings, the guns and poor food which suggest a war situation perhaps. It is clearly a high ranking official, someone with power. It is someone creepy and pervy. It is someone impervious to abhorrence, someone who 'churns in his stinking heaven' and someone who is her assassin of the world. Does all this add up to being Hitler or could it be someone else? What about if the poet says it is Hitler which as far as I know she hasn't publicly?
Secondly, if 'the best man' is Hitler does this completely ruin the poem and the collection? At the moment I feel like it does but I wonder if anyone sees it as a kind of enhancement.
(Just for the record this is not a homework task)
Here is alink to the title poem:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetrya...do?poemId=8336
Apparently the man is question is Hitler which to be honest turns my stomach.
Firstly, is it Hitler? I suppose there are the references to the Party rings, the guns and poor food which suggest a war situation perhaps. It is clearly a high ranking official, someone with power. It is someone creepy and pervy. It is someone impervious to abhorrence, someone who 'churns in his stinking heaven' and someone who is her assassin of the world. Does all this add up to being Hitler or could it be someone else? What about if the poet says it is Hitler which as far as I know she hasn't publicly?
Secondly, if 'the best man' is Hitler does this completely ruin the poem and the collection? At the moment I feel like it does but I wonder if anyone sees it as a kind of enhancement.
(Just for the record this is not a homework task)
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