Gigi Hartzell April 20, 2015 LLWI Purple Compare and Contrast 2 poems “The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.” (David Novak). The poem “The butterfly” by Pavel Friedman is a poem about the ugliness of the holocaust and how things were once beautiful but it doesn’t last. The poem “Fear” by Eva Pickova is also about the holocaust. Also about how people were giving up, but then in the last stanza people had hope and desperation to survive. The poem “Fear” and the poem “The Butterfly” are similar in terms of how the tone changes throughout the poem, but different in terms of the theme. In both Fear and The butterfly the tone of the poems change from the beginning of the story. The