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Jun 19, 2019 · O the chimneys. On the carefully planned dwellings of death. When Israel’s body rose dissolved in smoke. Through the air – To be welcomed by a chimney sweep star. Turned black. Or was it a ray of the sun? O the chimneys! Paths of freedom for the dust of Jeremiah and Job – Who dreamed you up and built stone upon stone. The path of smoke ...
by Leonie Sachs. Summary. Themes. Questions & Answers. Analysis. The Poem. PDF Cite. A free-verse poem of twenty lines originally in German and divided into four stanzas, “O the Chimneys” is a...
A poet and playwright born in Berlin of Jewish parents, Sachs escaped from Nazi Germany in 1940 to Stockholm, where she became a Swedish citizen, and eventually, she was the first Jewish woman to win a Nobel Prize, hers being for Literature in 1966.
Nelly sachs has a black theme: the fate of those who were beaten to death, gassed, murdered on an assembly line, stamped to pieces by a gigantically organized machinery of death.
Nelly Sachs’s O the Chimneys contains several collections of loosely connected free-verse poems, some preceded by quotations from the Old Testament, written to give voice to the horror...
Nelly Sachs ( German pronunciation: [ˈnɛliː zaks] ⓘ; 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German–Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews.
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"O the Chimneys" was the first poem in Leonie (Nelly) Sachs's collection In den Wohnungen des Todes ("In the Habitations of Death"), which was published in 1947. It also served as the title of the first book of translations of Sachs's poetry into English, in 1967, which contained a large body of texts from later work between 1949 and 1966.
