Analysis Of The Poem Fugue Of Death By Walter Benjamin

The poem, â€Å"Fugue of Death† by Paul Celan, and the essay,† The Storyteller† by Walter Benjamin, in the book, â€Å"Illuminations,† cover very similar topics in each of their works of art. There are a few themes that has been presented throughout the two works, one is how there is no longer room for moral right in the world because of the need to follow political right. This was very evident in the time of the two World Wars. People are torn between doing what is right, and following orders. Another parallel is how storytelling allows us to see what prisoners of the World War went through without us actually being present. In, â€Å"Fugue of Death† a recurring line is,† A man in the house your golden hair Margarete; Your ashen hair Shulamith he plays with the serpents (Celan, pg. 321).† In this line is shows a similarity between a soldier of the Nazi party, and a Jew who is imprisoned. The soldier and the prisoner both have a love d one at home, which shows at least one similarity between the two people. The two have something in common and the soldier may see that there being common ground between the two, and morally he may know that imprisoning the Jew is wrong, but from political pressure he has no choice but to follow orders. In â€Å"Illuminations† there is a quote,† For never has experience been contradicted more thoroughly than strategic experience by tactical warfare, economic experience by inflation, bodily experience by mechanical warfare, moral experience by those in