These images appear as mournful conceits, funereal imagination, doleful dreams. The "conceits" and the "imagination" direct the attention toward the poet's creative activity. The “play more sweetly death” reminds us of Bach’s symphony “Come Sweet Death,” where “death” “as the object of sweet playing pivots directly on “death” as the subject of mastery” (Felstiner 39). The emanation of death as a product from Deutschland is probably the most difficult for the reader to visualize, especially Arabic readers. These images create a certain atmosphere malevolence that relate them back to the first theme of the poem, where the poet is forced to drink the bitter “black milk.” Celan employs all of these images to emphasize the horrendous state of evil, anguish, and terror that he had to live through before he was liberated from a forced labor camp in late
These images appear as mournful conceits, funereal imagination, doleful dreams. The "conceits" and the "imagination" direct the attention toward the poet's creative activity. The “play more sweetly death” reminds us of Bach’s symphony “Come Sweet Death,” where “death” “as the object of sweet playing pivots directly on “death” as the subject of mastery” (Felstiner 39). The emanation of death as a product from Deutschland is probably the most difficult for the reader to visualize, especially Arabic readers. These images create a certain atmosphere malevolence that relate them back to the first theme of the poem, where the poet is forced to drink the bitter “black milk.” Celan employs all of these images to emphasize the horrendous state of evil, anguish, and terror that he had to live through before he was liberated from a forced labor camp in late