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- Title
Come Down, Deadly Night, and End Our Hounding, Haunting Torment: the Poems "Don't Be Afraid, My Child" and "At the Attic".
- Authors
Mazor, Yair
- Abstract
Examines the poems "Don't Be Afraid, My Child" and "At the Attic," by David Fogel who is considered the forefather of modern Hebrew poetry. Citation of the aesthetic rebellion by Fogel against the against the symbolistic ars poetica of Hebrew poetry pillars Avraham Shlonsky and Nathan Alterman; Link between the poems and the Holocaust orchestrated by the Nazis; Observation of the poetry's themes, topics and atmosphere associated with gloom, doom, somberness and murky feelings of fear and fright; Overview of the evolution of modern Hebrew poetry; Citation of the principal layers of Fogel's poetry.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); FOGEL, David; POETS; MODERN Hebrew poetry; DON'T Be Afraid, My Child (Poem); AT the Attic (Poem); SYMBOLISM; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945
- Publication
DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies, 2005, Vol 14, Issue 1, p12
- ISSN
1060-4367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1949-3606.2005.tb00873.x