Avrom Sutzkever's Poem 'Frozen Jews'

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The poem ‘Frozen Jews’ is a pragmatic representation of the Jewish holocaust, in which was written by a survivor Avrom Sutzkever. One year before the denomination of the crisis, Sutzkever was finally able to tell his story after its release on July 10th 1944. Avrom illustrates the vexatious deaths of his fellow Jewish people, stranded and enshrouded by accumulated mounds of snow; deprived of optimism, support or any chance of survival. Sutzkever gives insight on his story through the use of poetic devices, his eloquent writing techniques and the composition of mood and tone throughout the poem. The conflict of man verses society is distinctly established within the poem.

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