Amichai Loss of Innocence

I thought after reading several poems from Yehuda Amichai there was a commonality of loss of innocence in each of this separate poems. What I found most fascinating from last week is that I wrote about Mahmoud Darwish who is a poet who wrote about being Arab in Palestine. Amichai is a writer who writes from the perspective of a Jewish person in Israel. I have always had a deep interest in the Middle East and Jewish cultures. I think is fascinating to see the different poems on different end of the spectrum as far as literary themes.

In the poem "Jerusalem" the first stanza contains a narrator who does not produce much hope. "On a roof in the Old City-laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight- the white sheet of a woman who is my enemy"(1-4). These lines show little to no hope for this narrator where you cannot tell if it is a man or a woman. However, the narrator gives such a sense of diminished accomplish. In the middle stanza it shows the narrator references a child playing with a kite. "In the sky of the Old City-a kite-at the other end of the string-a child-I can't see-because of the wall"(6-11). These lines of the poems show how even the child's life is gloomy because of the internal and external conflict present in the poem.

                                                                    Works Cited

 Amichai, Yehuda. "Jerusalem." The Norton Anthology of World Literature. Third ed. Vol. 2. New York: W.W. Norton and, 2013. 1619-1623. Print.

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