English Report "There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love." These words spoken by Washington Irving, tell us that somethings, whether beautiful or wretched, cannot be expressed through ordinary words. However, this should not stop one from sharing it with the world. Though not everyone is able to express themselves in a perfect way, everyone has the capability to do so. Although it is extremely difficult to express unspeakable and horrible events, the use of poetic language and artistic expression help significantly. One strategy used to explain the unspeakable is poetic language. In Document A, an excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel, repeatedly employs the same phrase “never shall I forget”. (Document A) Not only does this excerpt use poetic language to express the unspeakable and horrific events that happened to Elie and all the other Jews, it also uses repetition to drive the point even further as one reads through the excerpt. The author of this poetic piece, also …show more content…
In document D, an excerpt from the political cartoon, Maus, shows short annotated pictures showing how a mouse is lured into a trap and killed. Maus shows the reader what it was like being jew back then by comparing the Nazis to the cats, and the Jews to the mice. It Then Goes on to then make a connection, between a dog being shot and killed to the Jew on the ground being shot and killed. The person who had been shot rolled on the ground for several minutes before he stopped moving. Just like the dog who had been shot in the narrator’s neighborhood. The Strategy, Artistic Expression, is yet another way to express and grasp the unspeakable and treacherous events that happened during World War II. The Strategy, Artistic Expression, is yet another way to express and grasp the unspeakable and treacherous events that happened during World War