Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Study Guide for Paul Celan's "Late and Deep"
    A Study Guide for Paul Celan's "Late and Deep"
    A Study Guide for Paul Celan's "Late and Deep"
    Ebook27 pages18 minutes

    A Study Guide for Paul Celan's "Late and Deep"

    By Gale and Cengage

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    A Study Guide for Paul Celan's "Late and Deep," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535827157
    A Study Guide for Paul Celan's "Late and Deep"

    Read more from Gale

    Related to A Study Guide for Paul Celan's "Late and Deep"

    Related ebooks

    Teaching Methods & Materials For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Remembering Women

      Jun 22, 2021

      Remembering Women
      8 min read

    • Article

      Pasolini’s Ashes

      Jun 25, 2023

      Pasolini’s Ashes
      7 min read

    • Article

      Picture A Poem

      Sep 1, 2022

      Picture A Poem
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Living Mandelstam

      May 1, 2020

      It is common for English-language accounts of Mandelstam’s life to begin with an account of his death. Consider the first sentence of a twosentence biography that appeared in The New York Review of Books in 2016 to preface a translation by Andrew Dav

      13 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Translation No. 6

      Sep 15, 2019

      The Art of Translation No. 6
      30 min read

    • Article

      Felix Mendelssohn

      Mar 19, 2020

      Felix Mendelssohn
      6 min read

    • Article

      Private Devotion

      Sep 1, 2018

      Greetings from Angelus by Gershom Scholem (translated by Richard Sieburth). Archipelago Books, 2018, $14.00 paper. IN 1648—the year, according to the Zohar, destined to usher in the messianic era—a Smyrnan Jew by the name of Shabbatai Tzvi received

      5 min read

    • Article

      Shining and Whole: In Remembrance of Donald Hall

      Jul 6, 2018

      Wandering the aisles made of beige steel and unrememberable carpet that was the poetry section of my local suburban library, I waited for poetry to come to me. What arrived was The Painted Bed, a collection by Donald Hall. I could’ve opened it to any

      4 min read

    • Article

      Finding a Mother Tongue

      May 27, 2020

      Finding a Mother Tongue
      10 min read

    • Article

      Paradise Dimmed

      Jun 29, 2023

      In 1868, the writer John William De Forest coined the term “The Great American Novel” to describe an epic in prose that would “paint the American soul”, capture national ideals and manners, and help unify the United States after the Civil War. He hop

      8 min read

    • Article

      From The Trojan War To Conflict In Ukraine

      Nov 30, 2023

      THE YEAR 2023 HAS BEENrich in works composed in tempore belli. The most impressive is Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine (William Collins, £26) by General David Petraeus and the historian Andrew Roberts. This is an ambitious and

      6 min read

    • Article

      “The Dead Will Think The Living Are Worth It”

      Jul 1, 2019

      1. In 2017 Copper Canyon Press reissued W.S. Merwin’s book of poems The Lice to mark the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication. The news caught my attention because I have a personal attachment to this collection. I bought it at a garage s

      13 min read

    • Article

      Writing In The Ruins

      May 16, 2023

      Writing In The Ruins
      11 min read

    • Article

      Compulsively Driven

      Mar 21, 2023

      Compulsively Driven
      7 min read

    • Article

      Norwegian Wood

      Jul 25, 2019

      HENRIK IBSEN: THE MAN AND THE MASK By Ivo de Figueiredo, translated by Robert Ferguson. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2019. 704 pp., $40 cloth. HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND HENRIK IBSEN? Theatrically, he was the Master Builder himself, setting the

      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Study Guide for Paul Celan's "Late and Deep"

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Study Guide for Paul Celan's "Late and Deep" - Gale

      1

      Late and Deep

      Paul Celan

      1952

      Introduction

      Paul Celan's poem Late and Deep has been translated into English by John Felstiner and included in the collection Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan. It is a relatively early work from the poet's career, originally published in 1952 in Poppy and Memory, as it was called in English. This poem is a disturbing one, dealing as it does with the recent memory of the Holocaust, of Jewish history through the ages, and of the constant pressure for conversion to Christianity that Jews have faced from ancient and medieval times up until the present. It is a poem that seems to affirm an oath or prayer but that ultimately undercuts its own promises. The poem is characterized by allusions to Christian and Jewish scripture and history, and it seems to beckon forward and backward, from the time of the Exodus from Egypt, up to the Holocaust, in a neverending saga of oppression, faith, and the futility and the barrenness of that faith. Celan is a Jew, writing in the German language of his people's oppressors, but he is a Jew who has lost faith in a personal God, making this poem bitter in its renunciation of

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1