Dinkleberry2010
12-25-2009, 02:06 PM
First of all, to the one who took one line out of my poem "The Son Of Dionysus" and proceeded to read something into it that doesn't exist and to twist it and eke out a meaning which is divorced from reality and make the line appear to mean something that it doesn't, and to cast aspersions on it and to accuse me of being anti-Semitic--what you did is contemptible.
With that said, I will now give an explication of the line in question. This is how it goes: "Then he (the son of Dionysus) awakens and faintly hears from across the scarlet sea the earthly howls of despair: "Hitler is alive and living in Israel!"
Now when I composed the poem and the specific line in question, here is the idea I had: What if by some happenstance, Hitler (who represents and indeed was and is the epitome of evil--along with Stalin), did not die? What if he, like a number of Nazis--Joseph Mengele for example who managed to make it to South America and live thirty-four years without being detected, managed to escape? Where would Hitler go? Where would be the last place in the world one would expect him to go, to hide? I think it would be Israel. It would be the ultimate horrible irony that the embodiment of evil who was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions and more than six million Jews would be able somehow to get into Israel and be able to hide. Then, when by some means it was discovered that Hitler was indeed hiding in Israel itself, that would cause the "earthly howls of despair"--that Hitler, that is, the embodiment of evil, had after all not been defeated, much less had died, but was still existing in Israel of all places.
Now that is the explication of the line. If the explication doesn't satisfy or placate or soothe you, then it will show to me that you have some kind of agenda; that you see a neo-Nazi or Hitlerite under every bed, or a witch behind every rosebush, or a communist teaching in every school.
With that said, I will now give an explication of the line in question. This is how it goes: "Then he (the son of Dionysus) awakens and faintly hears from across the scarlet sea the earthly howls of despair: "Hitler is alive and living in Israel!"
Now when I composed the poem and the specific line in question, here is the idea I had: What if by some happenstance, Hitler (who represents and indeed was and is the epitome of evil--along with Stalin), did not die? What if he, like a number of Nazis--Joseph Mengele for example who managed to make it to South America and live thirty-four years without being detected, managed to escape? Where would Hitler go? Where would be the last place in the world one would expect him to go, to hide? I think it would be Israel. It would be the ultimate horrible irony that the embodiment of evil who was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions and more than six million Jews would be able somehow to get into Israel and be able to hide. Then, when by some means it was discovered that Hitler was indeed hiding in Israel itself, that would cause the "earthly howls of despair"--that Hitler, that is, the embodiment of evil, had after all not been defeated, much less had died, but was still existing in Israel of all places.
Now that is the explication of the line. If the explication doesn't satisfy or placate or soothe you, then it will show to me that you have some kind of agenda; that you see a neo-Nazi or Hitlerite under every bed, or a witch behind every rosebush, or a communist teaching in every school.